On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, John W. Krahn wrote:
> printf is based on the C language printf function and can be a bit
> tricky. The format "%-5s" will not truncate a value longer than 5
> characters but it will pad a shorter value with spaces. To truncate a
> longer value use the format "%-5.5s". Also,
Scott wrote:
>
> Hi all.
Hello,
> I have a couple of strings that I need to format. One of those fields is
> a alpha/numeric string. Here is the code:
>
> printf NEWQUOTES ("%-5s", @fields[14]);
>
> When I run the code I get 10 extra spaces before the next field instead of
> the 5. The
> -Original Message-
> From: Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 10:29 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Formatting with printf
>
>
> Hi all.
>
> I have a couple of strings that I need to format. One of
>
Cancel the request. The field coming in actually had 10 spaces in it, so
I just removed the spaces doing this:
$field14 = @fields[14];
$field14 =~ s/ //g;
print NEWQUOTES ($field14);
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Scott wrote:
> printf NEWQUOTES ("%-5s", @fields[14]);
> When I run the code I get 10 extr
Hi all.
I have a couple of strings that I need to format. One of those fields is
a alpha/numeric string. Here is the code:
printf NEWQUOTES ("%-5s", @fields[14]);
When I run the code I get 10 extra spaces before the next field instead of
the 5. The value of @fields[14] is: A2103.
Is th
