use strict;
use warnings;
open(A,">Result.txt") or die "$!";
while(<DATA>) {
printf A "%-10s%-7s%-8s\n",split
}
close(A)
__DATA__
The Early Year
Five New Swine
Update: The default arguments to
split are sufficient: split $_ around whitespace.
The format string (first argument) to
printf is as follows:
% indicates the start of a format specifier, a value which follows the format string will be "plugged-in" and formatted into this position.
- means left justify the field
10 (or 7 or 8) is the
minimum field width. Shorter fields will be padded with spaces, longer will be displayed intact (data will not be lost).
s indicates the field is a string