> -----Original Message-----
> From: Heiko Heggen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 5:48 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Formatting String output
>
>
> Hi Guys.
>
> I want to format my String output with the 'printf' command,
> but I cant find
> the solution. For you experienced people this is not problem
> I think, so
> could you give me the right hint, please
>
> What I want to do:
> I have several arrays which contains a certain number of strings with
> different length. And I want to generate an output like this:
>
> asdfg a as asdf
> as asdf asdfgh a
> asdf asdfg a asdfgh
>
> I think this is something like that:
> for ($i=0; $i<$arrayCount; $i++)
> { printf("%s", myArray[$i]:10); }
>
> But this does not work. Where is the fault.
All the details are in:
perldoc -f sprintf
To output in a field of 10 cols:
printf('%10s', 'Hello');
# prints ' Hello'
Default is right-justified. To left-justify:
printf('%-10s', 'Hello');
# prints 'Hello '
Default is to expand the field if input is longer. To
truncate to exactly 10 chars (and left-justify):
printf('%-10.10s', 'ARatherLongString');
# prints 'ARatherLon'
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