On Oct 27, 1:52 pm, aim...@sfbrgenetics.org (Aimee Cardenas) wrote:
> Hi, All!
>
> I need to fix the width of some strings padding with leading spaces if
> necessary. I wanted to use printf but I don't know if you can put a
> variable in the format part the the printf statement. For example, if
> I wanted to use the following format type:
>
> printf OFILE "%7s\n", $str;
>
> but instead of '7' have a variable such as $w there, how might I do
> this? Or is there a better function for what I'm trying to do?
my $width = 7;
my $fmt = "%${width}s";
printf $fmt, $str;
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