Re: [MacPerl] stupid question about format

[Arved Sandstrom <Arved_37@chebucto.ns.ca>]

On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Vincent Nonnenmacher wrote:

> I spended an hour trying to format a record that must be fixed length 
> but with spaces at the end of the record using perl format.
> 
> $field1='field1';
> $field2='field2';
> $field3='1';
> 
> format STDOUT =
> @<<<<<<<<@>>>>>>>>@>>>
> $field1,$field2,$field3
> .
> 
> write;
> 
> the result is : (^ is space and ¬ is cariage return)
> field1^^^^^^field2¬
> 
[ some snippage ]

I must be missing something here, because this produces for me exactly
what I would expect it to: a left-justified string 'field1' in a field of
width 9, a right-justified string 'field2' in a field of width 9, so there
appear to be 6 spaces in between, and a right-justified field '1' in a
field of width 4.

Arved



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