yes, and if that won't work for you, check out the 'format' command, you can do lots of slick stuff with it, like centering.
-Tom Kinzer -----Original Message----- From: James Edward Gray II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 9:16 AM To: Bill Jastram Cc: Perl List Subject: Re: Align Text On Dec 19, 2003, at 8:29 AM, Bill Jastram wrote: > James: > > A coupe of things. > > #1. Pardon my ignorance, but I'm not sure how to use the list where I > found the reply button to e-mail you directly. I could not find a way > to > add to the already existing 'thread'. Your help would be appreciated. The list is just another address you can send your messages too: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A lot of people just hit "Reply All" if their mail client has such a button. In the case of this message, that would send your answer to me and the list. > #2. The challenge with the use of %20s is that in the next row of > records > the names will not be aligned (flush left) with the row above, if the > names are not the same length. This is my dilemma. Correct, but they will be aligned flush right. For flush left, we just change the pattern a little: > perl -e 'printf "%-20s %-20s %-20s\n", "James", "Edward", "Gray"' James Edward Gray Does that answer your question? James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
