Re: [MacPerl] Variable Names in Formatted Output

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 14.23 -0400 1999.06.10, Robert wrote:
>I'm learning the examples from _Learning Perl on Win32 Systems_ using my
>PowerBook. The following example does not work correctly. It appears that I
>am incorrectly specifying that columnz is a variable. The script just
>outputs words, right-justified, in a column of an arbitrary width. What am I
>doing wrong?
>
>print "How many columns? ";
>chomp ($columnz = <STDIN>);
>print "Enter a list of words:\n";
>chomp (@list = <STDIN>);
>foreach (@list) {
> printf "%${columnz}s\n", $_;
> }

Looks fine, but your post has a problem.  You say "The following example
does not work correctly", without telling us what it is doing that is wrong.

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