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sprintf "%-${length}s", $string" Update: note that length here is the name of a variable, not the function call being interpreted as a reference.
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Re^2: Generating standard length strings
by ihb (Deacon) on Apr 15, 2005 at 02:37 UTC 

    sprintf '%-*s', $length, $string

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    Less noise in the format.

    ihb

    See perltoc if you don't know which perldoc to read!

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