[aclug-L] Re: Formatting numbers in Perl!

[Jesse Kaufman <glandix@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

if nothing else, you *could* calculate the length of the longest one, then
pad the others accordingly...  i remember doing that back in pascal! : ^ )

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On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Mohammad Islam wrote:

> Steven Saner wrote:
> > 
> > You can use the sprintf, which is the same as printf except that it
> > will print to a string. So something like:
> > 
> > $sub_total = sprintf "%.2d", $price * $quantity;
> > 
> Thanks. Yea i have found some info about sprintf and alreaduy using it.
> Now how about left or right justifying? Say I have the following..
> 
> 99.99 124.50 6780.98
> 
> I want them to line up like this:
> 
>   99.99
>  124.50
> 6780.98
> 
> Can i do this with sprintf?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Moe
> 
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