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in thread How to align tabbed strings?

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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Re^3: How to align tabbed strings?
by FunkyMonk (Bishop) on Jan 02, 2010 at 17:54 UTC
    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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