•Re: peek - output a one-line preview of stdin

[merlyn]

my $pad = ' ' x $wide;
...
$_ = substr($_ . $pad, 0, $wide);
print $_, "\r";

That can be written far more simply and efficiently as:

printf "%-${wide}.${wide}s\r", $_;

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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[halley]

Great tip-- I often forget to use printf, as if moving from C to Perl meant having to leave all of C's methods behind. I have never liked the %#.#s notation of printf... and now I imagine perl6's interpolated hashes may make for some righteous DWIM hacks.

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