Your second approach would work if you were aligning your template string correctly, and if it were not commented out. I'm assuming you want space-padding:

use List::Util qw(sum);

my ($FreqP, $FreqN, $FreqZ) = map {int rand 41600} 0..2;
my $Sum = sum($FreqP, $FreqN, $FreqZ);

printf ( "Freq(Z+):    %16d\n" , $FreqP) ;
printf ( "Freq(Z-):    %16d\n" , $FreqN) ;
printf ( "Freq(0):     %16d\n" , $FreqZ) ;
printf ( "Total:    %19d\n" , $Sum) ;

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The output:

Freq(Z+):               32571
Freq(Z-):               25729
Freq(0):                 9025
Total:                  67325

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If you wanted zero padding, just apply the appropriate modification to the printf templates (Insert a 0 character at the start of the field widths):

printf ( "Freq(Z+):    %016d\n" , $FreqP) ;

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The documentation for printf templates is in sprintf.


Dave

In reply to Re: How to right align outputs of stored data in a variable? by davido
in thread How to right align outputs of stored data in a variable? by perlnovice1900

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