Another thing, "%6d %5d %5d" behaves different from "%6d"."%5d" x 2. The last one is more correct (gives less extra spaces)....hmmm....???
Kare On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 10:10 -0700, Doug Hunt wrote: > Hi Kare: > > PDL 2.4.2 (which is all I've got installed right now) gives a correct 5 > character wide field for me. > > --Doug > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Software Engineer III > UCAR - COSMIC, Tel. (303) 497-2611 > > On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, KreEdvardsen wrote: > > > Hi all, > > Why does the output end up 2 character wider than specified by the > > format code? > > > > wcols "%5d", $year, 'test.dat' > > > > gives a 7 character field width instead of a width of 5 characters. > > > > Kare > >
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