I am trying to make the decimal points line up in print statements like below. But when printing a zero value it only prints 3 digits as 0.00, and the decimal points don't line up. I have tried % 4.2f, %04.2f, %-4.2f and %4.2f but nothing works. Is there a way? 

#!/usr/bin/perl
$myfmt="%3d : %4.2f : %3d\n";
printf $myfmt, 111,12.34,-1;
printf $myfmt, 22,0.00, -2;
printf $myfmt, -2,-6.25, -3;
=pod
111 : 12.34 :  -1
 22 : 0.00 :  -2
 -2 : -6.25 :  -3
=cut

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Thanks to the people who answered and pointed out the simple fix to my 'problem'. pgmer6809

In reply to Printf format --Solved Thanks by pgmer6809

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