On Wednesday 21 July 2004 10:52, Kent, Mr. John \(Contractor\) wrote: > > Greetings,
Hello, > Want to print out a formattted line of numbers > > Is there a way to avoid having to: > >printf "%8d %8d %8d ..... ten times",$num1,$num2,$num3, ... , > > $num10; ? > > Something like > printf "%8d" * 10, @numray; Perl has the "x" repetition operator so you can do: printf "%8d" x @numray, @numray; John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>