in reply to sprintf formatting

my $fmt = "%-${max_company_name_len}s %-${max_value1_len}s %s\n";

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Re^2: sprintf formatting
by jwkrahn (Abbot) on Jul 30, 2009 at 18:02 UTC

    Or perhaps:

    sprintf "%-*s %-*s %s\n", $max_company_name_len, $company_name, $max_s +ome_value1_len, $some_value1, $some_value2;