On Jan 30, Nikola Janceski said: >printf " %8s ", $_; ## works because I put the 8 in the code > >but what if the variable $size has the size, how then do I use printf using >$size in place of the 8?
Two ways come to mind: printf " %${size}s ", $_; and printf " %*s ", $size, $_; -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]