Nothing is working, I have tried every permutation. %20s %-20s %20d %-20d
In fact, what you just suggested caused the number to display as a negative. Any ideas?? -CC ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vinicius Jose Latorre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 4:08 PM Subject: Re: Format interger printing > > Try: > > printf "%10d bytes", $x; > > > Vinicius > > ------ Chuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Arg, I am going crazy. Ok, it has been a long time since I was kneee deep in > > perl, but why does this not work: > > > > > > printf "%-10d bytes", $x; > > > > It does not pad the output with spaces or anything. > > > > if x = 25 > > > > this is the result: > > > > 25 bytes > > > > I want it tobe: > > > > 25 bytes > > > > Anyone have any ideas. I just scanned thourgh both Programming Perl and the > > Cookbook and could not find this. > > > > Thankx, > > CC > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
