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Re: Field Spacing

by talexb (Chancellor)
on May 24, 2002 at 17:56 UTC ( [id://169165]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Field Spacing

Check out the built-in function printf and the meaning of the format statement "%30s". From a Unix prompt you could also try man printf which talks about the C equivalent function -- it's quite similar to Perl's.

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