Re: using (dot) . with printf does not incur the results I expected

[John W. Krahn]

Richard wrote:

what's wrong w/ this ?
I used (dot) . to indicate the maximum length of each element in the 
print but last one does not print out in alinged format..

What am i missing?

use warnings;
use strict;

my $yabal = 'truncated';
my $never = 'sai';
my $noway = 'han1';

my %never = qw(hi how are you today fine i am good and everyday12345678 
never12345689);


printf "%-.5s %-15s %-.2s\n", $yabal, $never, $noway;

for (keys %never) {
 printf "%.2s %.10s\n", $_, $never{$_};


It looks like you want this instead:

printf "%-2.2s %-10.10s\n", $_, $never{$_};



}

r...@myserver ~> ././yahoo2
trunc sai ha
hi how
go and
to fine
ar you
ev never12345
i am



John
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Re: using (dot) . with printf does not incur the results I expected

[Richard]

Richard wrote:

what's wrong w/ this ?
I used (dot) . to indicate the maximum length of each element in the 
print but last one does not print out in alinged format..

What am i missing?

use warnings;
use strict;

my $yabal = 'truncated';
my $never = 'sai';
my $noway = 'han1';

my %never = qw(hi how are you today fine i am good and 
everyday12345678 never12345689);


printf "%-.5s %-15s %-.2s\n", $yabal, $never, $noway;

for (keys %never) {
 printf "%.2s %.10s\n", $_, $never{$_};
}

r...@myserver ~> ././yahoo2
trunc sai ha
hi how
go and
to fine
ar you
ev never12345
i am



I guess I was missing the 2.2 option...


my %never = qw(hi how are you today fine i am good and everyday12345678 
never12345689);



for (keys %never) {
 printf "%-2.2s %-10.10s\n", $_, $never{$_};
}

r...@myserver  ~> ./!$
././yahoo2
trunc sai ha
hi how  
go and  
to fine 
ar you  
ev never12345
i  am 




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using (dot) . with printf does not incur the results I expected

[Richard]

what's wrong w/ this ?
I used (dot) . to indicate the maximum length of each element in the 
print but last one does not print out in alinged format..

What am i missing?

use warnings;
use strict;

my $yabal = 'truncated';
my $never = 'sai';
my $noway = 'han1';

my %never = qw(hi how are you today fine i am good and everyday12345678 
never12345689);


printf "%-.5s %-15s %-.2s\n", $yabal, $never, $noway;

for (keys %never) {
 printf "%.2s %.10s\n", $_, $never{$_};
}

r...@myserver ~> ././yahoo2
trunc sai ha
hi how
go and
to fine
ar you
ev never12345
i am


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