Quoting from page 122 of O'Reillys "Programming Perl," which, by the way, is
a most excellent book:
Quote: "As an alternate form of right justification, you may also use #
characters (after an initial @ or ^, and with an optional ".") to specify a
numeric field. This way you can line up the decimal points." Unquote
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Subject: RE: Printf
> You could try something like this:
>
> #######################
> use strict
>
> @a = qw(10.000 100.00 1000000.00000 1000.000);
> $a = $b = "";
>
> foreach $val (@a) {
> ($a,$b) = split(/\./,$val);
> write;
> }
>
> format STDOUT =
> @>>>>>>>>>.@<<<<<<<<<
> $a,$b
> .
> #######################
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Govinderjit Dhinsa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 9:38 AM
> > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > Subject: Printf
> >
> >
> > How could I please put the following example;
> >
> > 1000.000
> > 10.0000000
> > 100.0000000
> > 10000.0000000
> > To please print out, IN A LINE with the Decimal Place! and
> > not from the
> > first number, so all the decimal places would line up!
> > example;
> >
> > I have tried printf and had no luck
> >
> > Thanks
> > GD
> >
> >
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