Next problem:
It is now printing the number as a negative:
print "<PRE>\n";
printf "%15d bytes free in $phost:/var/tmp<BR>\n", $freespace;
Result:
-999948288 bytes free in smh4:/var/tmp
Any ideas?
Thanks,
CC
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Showalter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Brett W. McCoy'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Chuck"
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Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 9:54 AM
Subject: RE: Format interger printing, MORE INFO
> > -----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...
>
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