Re: printf? RE: help building hash on-the-fly?

[Andrew Gaffney]

I'm going to venture a guess here. Its probably because he needed the number printed as a 
3-digit number padded with zeroes, which print can't do.

McMahon, Chris wrote:
Hi Wags...
        So now an idle style question, if you don't mind...
	This syntax seems pretty obscure to me (I had to look up what printf
was doing): 

printf "%3d $file\n", $MyId++;

	It's efficient and all, but isn't this more readable for the same
number of characters? 

print "$MyId $file\n"; 
$MyId++; 

	I just wondered why you like printf in this circumstance. 
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Andrew Gaffney
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