On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Daniel Burgaud<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a problem with printf/sprintf
>
> Basically I have this code:
> printf "%-50s %10.2f\n", $item, $price;
>
> This code prints a line that is 61 chars long with the Item's name on the
> Left and Price on the right.
> However, I want to make it variable width based on either screen width, or
> user input:
> ie,
>
> print "%-$Ws %10.2f\n", $item, $price;
>
> Obviously, this does not work. How do I code it to work like i want it?
printf "%-${W}s %10.2f\n", $item, $price;
Gabor
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