Re: Perl Problems with Digit Precision Changing on the Printf Statement

define "won't work". what do you expect, and what do you get with that code snippet?

besides that, you might want to use the star *:
printf STDOUT ("\n%*s\n", $digitprecision, $value); for that.

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Re^2: Perl Problems with Digit Precision Changing on the Printf Statement by EchoAngel (Pilgrim) on Jun 24, 2004 at 15:35 UTC
i mean i want those two lines to output the same OUTPUT to screen. when i run `printf STDOUT ("\n%s\n", $digitprecision, $value);` [download] I get 'Use of in printf format not supported at example.pl line 10'	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Perl Problems with Digit Precision Changing on the Printf Statement by tinita (Parson) on Jun 24, 2004 at 15:40 UTC
oh, i'm getting the same output (v5.8.0 linux at the moment). what perl version are you using? regarding `%*s`: i don't know since which perl version it is allowed...	[reply] [d/l]