in reply to Newline in left-justified string for %s warning

When I run your two line of code I get the following warnings:

Newline in left-justified string for sprintf at ...noname.pl line 6.
Use of uninitialized value in sprintf at ...noname.pl line 6.
Newline in left-justified string for sprintf at ...noname.pl line 6.
Use of uninitialized value in sprintf at ...noname.pl line 6.
Newline in left-justified string for sprintf at ...noname.pl line 6.
Use of uninitialized value in sprintf at ...noname.pl line 6.

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Have you omited use warnings?

Perl is Huffman encoded by design.

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Re^2: Newline in left-justified string for %s warning
by pg (Canon) on Oct 10, 2005 at 05:26 UTC

    This code helps to explain those two warnings seperately:

    printf("%-2s", "\n");
printf("%s%s", "a");

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    It prints:

    Newline in left-justified string for printf at math1.pl line 1.

Use of uninitialized value in printf at math1.pl line 2.
 a

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    The OP already provided the document that explains the first warning. The warning, to be frank, is meaningless. They just feel worried that you are probably confusing yourself ;-)

    The second warning was caused by the fact that we have two %s, which requires two strings, but only one is provided.

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Re^2: Newline in left-justified string for %s warning
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 10, 2005 at 04:28 UTC
    I am using warnings and I am not getting the warnings. My Perl version:

    This is perl, v5.6.1 built for i686-linux

    The original sprintf that gives the warning is most likely running on a different platform (although I would have to check).

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      I am using Active State v5.8.7 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread.

      Perl is Huffman encoded by design.
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