printf question

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

Monks,
How to make ptintf function to print the string from left instead of right.
for example the command below display from the right most column, I need from left:
printf "%30sTesting"
Thanks for help. -------------------------- Thanks a lot, I did not know about perldoc. Please be patient as I am new to perl.

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Re: printf question by valdez (Monsignor) on Jun 27, 2004 at 16:18 UTC
`printf "%-30sTesting", $value;` Please refer to `perldoc -f sprintf` for more explanations. Ciao, Valerio	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: printf question by Joost (Canon) on Jun 27, 2004 at 16:17 UTC
You could take a look at the documentation first and then ask questions here when you can't figure it out. Show some initiative, please. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]