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in thread Displaying text in columns

Play around with printf and sprintf, or split you data into columns and create html tables.
$ perl use strict; use warnings; my @arr = qw ( 397 1234565 129837 12387621 21365 1 123123 ); printf("%010d\n", $_) for @arr; print("-" x 10 . "\n"); printf("%+10d\n", $_) for @arr; print("-" x 10 . "\n"); printf("%10s\n", $_) for @arr; print("-" x 10 . "\n"); printf("%-10s\n", $_) for @arr; __END__ 0000000397 0001234565 0000129837 0012387621 0000021365 0000000001 0000123123 ---------- +397 +1234565 +129837 +12387621 +21365 +1 +123123 ---------- 397 1234565 129837 12387621 21365 1 123123 ---------- 397 1234565 129837 12387621 21365 1 123123
Now my next question is ..
PS: Please create a new thread if you have additional questions. Thanks. DS.
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Re^4: Displaying text in columns
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 10, 2007 at 22:32 UTC
    This method only print spaces on a terminal screen, but I need the extra   symbol so that it showed up as spaces on the web browser screen. Any thoughts?

      HTML ignore repeated spaces. If you need spaces you can use a non-breaking space or pre tags.


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Re^4: Displaying text in columns
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 10, 2007 at 22:32 UTC
    This method only print spaces on a terminal screen, but I need the extra & nbsp symbol so that it showed up as spaces on the web browser screen. Any thoughts?