Sun751 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question: 

use strict; 
use warnings;

my $line = "Appal";
printf "%8s$line\n";

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In above code I am getting following error, Use of uninitialized value in printf Any suggestion? Please,
Oh! got it guys its printf format, should be
printf "%8s\n",$line;

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Re: printf uninitialized value
by bluestar (Novice) on Aug 28, 2009 at 10:07 UTC 
    use strict; 
use warnings;

my $line = "Appal";
printf("%8s\n", $line);

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Re: printf uninitialized value
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 28, 2009 at 04:13 UTC
    perldoc -f printf
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