Hi Dotan, thanks! It is amazing how I miss important sentences! (I was searching for "tab" in that man page. BTW, tabs does other weird things when strings are longer than the format element they are sent to.)
Of course I can use "print", but the "format"/"write" makes things easier for one of my applications. Thanks! Meir _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dotan Dimet Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 4:34 PM To: Perl in Israel Subject: Re: [Israel.pm] and Tab-Separated-Values Hi Meir, Wow. I've never seen Perl formats being used in RL (or even mentioned anywhere outside of the Perl documentation)! The last paragraph of the perlform document (perldoc perlform) says: > "Within strings that are to be displayed in a fixed length text field, each control character is substituted by a space." I think that because the main point of formats is to produce fixed-width output, characters like tabs that have a variable-width representation are problematic. Does using format/write in this case give you anything that "print" doesn't provide? - Dotan No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.901 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3804 - Release Date: 08/01/11 21:34:00
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