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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", $_; > } Chris wrote: 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. The first five lines execute as expected. When I enter Cntrol-D to end the array entry, I fully expect the lines to print. They do not. Nothing happens. I feel confident in the loop. the printf syntax may have me confused. As the title of the post indicates. Is there something wrong with a variable used with curly quotes in this manner? Robert Ligon |