in reply to How to align tabbed strings?

As WizardOfUz has said, Text::Table will do as you want (and a whole lot more). Perhaps a simpler solution using printf (the formatting codes are described in sprintf) will do: 
my @rows = (
    [qw/johnny 2 12-09-2008/],
    [qw/rob 2 25-10-2008/],
);

my $format = "%-8s %-5s %-8s\n";
printf $format, qw/Username Level Created/;
printf $format, @$_
  for @rows;
__END__
Username Level Created
johnny   2     12-09-2008
rob      2     25-10-2008

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Re^2: How to align tabbed strings?
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 02, 2010 at 17:49 UTC

    Wonderful, thank you so much!

    Instead of printing, is it possible to save the formatted string into a variable (scalar), so that you can send it off (for instance) as a message in email (via sendmail)?

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      That's what sprintf does!

      my $format = "%-8s %-5s %-8s\n";
my $output = sprintf $format, qw/Username Level Created/;
$output .= sprintf $format, @$_
  for @rows;

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