> -----Original Message----- > From: Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 3:31 PM > To: Brian Volk; Brian Volk; beginners@perl.org > Subject: RE: print if variable matches key > > > > I am jusmping into the middle, so not real certain on what the > output looks like, but the problem comes from what a\t does under the > current shell setup you are using. If you print $emailValue and it is 20 > characters plus \t will not look the same if you print 5 characters plus > a \t. You could use printf and then size appropriately and \t will do > what you want. > > If you have any problems or questions, please let me know. > > Thanks. > > Wags ;) [Brian Volk] thank you for the response...actually I'm printing the output to a tab file so excel handles my needs fine. I'm just having trouble "printing" a tab when the key does not exist in %hash. If I can get this to work, ...then every time I run the program on a new email file it will place the record in the correct field in the existing file. (I'm guessing...but one thing at a time for me! :-) )
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