On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 11:02 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have a perl script that is working fine. The script involves creating an
> array of numbers. The values of these numbers in the is quite large (12
> integer digits or more). I can easily display the numbers with a simple print
> statement. I want to display the contents with one element per line and
> format it so that it lines up vertically. This is where I am running into
> issues. I tried to use a sprintf statement with a format of "%15u" so that
> I did not get a negative number. However the value displayed is much smaller
> than what the actual value. What is the best way to fix this display issue?
Try "%15s" instead; "%15u" seems to cut-off the numbers.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my $n = 1;
for my $i ( 1 .. 15 ){
$n = $n * 10 + $i;
printf "%15s\n", $n;
}
__END__
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