write() removes trailing spaces

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Re: write() removes trailing spaces by Joost (Canon) on Jun 09, 2006 at 10:22 UTC
Given that formats are intended to create plain text printable reports, removing trailing spaces certainly makes sense, if only for efficiency. But indeed, it might be a good idea to document that somewhere (I havent searched everywhere, but it doesn't appear to be documented right now). If it's really undocumented, you could write a documentation patch and submit it to the perl5 porters. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]
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Re: write() removes trailing spaces by ioannis (Abbot) on Jun 09, 2006 at 08:35 UTC
There is nothing strange. The following altered code demonstrates that your $c variable contains 13 chars , which you want displayed within 11 space holders (1+10). Two chars werer choped, as per your request . `format STDOUT = @<<<<@<<<<@<<<<<<<<<<END $a, $b, $c . $a = "a"; $b = "b"; $c = "c .bc"; print 'len=',length $c; write(STDOUT);` [download] Produces this output: `len=13 a b c .END` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
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Re: write() removes trailing spaces (plagiarized) by shmem (Chancellor) on Oct 09, 2006 at 09:28 UTC
Ripped from p5p. Original post is here. --shmem _($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo. G°\ / /\_¯/(q / ---------------------------- \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."· ");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}	[reply]