> -----Original Message----- > From: Brett W. McCoy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 12:17 AM > To: Chuck > Cc: Vinicius Jose Latorre; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Format interger printing, MORE INFO > > > On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Chuck wrote: > > > Here is a snippet: > > printf "%20d bytes free in $phost:/var/tmp<BR>\n", $freespace; > > printf "$shipsize bytes being shipped.<P>\n"; > > > > Here is the output: > > -1012379648 bytes free in smh4:/var/tmp > > 359731200 bytes being shipped. > > It's because 3282567168, apparently, is too big to be printed as an > integer value. But this works: > > $ perl -e 'printf "%20.f\n", 3282567168' > 3282567168
Also, Chuck, your use of <BR>, and <P> makes me think this is HTML being viewed in a browser? Repeated whitespace in HTML is ignored except in <pre> tags... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
