You'll want to use Perl's 'format' keyword. Check:
http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/func/format.html
for details. BTW, I heard a rumour that this functionality will go away
in Perl 6, can anyone confirm/deny this? Seems odd for the Practical
Extraction and REPORT Language to nix' it's own report formatting
ability. :P
- jc
rotaiv wrote:
>
> I'm not sure I quite understand the way you are attempting to format output
> but I achieved a similar thing using the printf and/or sprintf command. It
> allows you to format a string with space padded text, specific decimal
> places, left/right justification, etc, etc. This allows you to line
> everything up in certain columns, etc, etc.
>
> rotaiv
>
> At 12/15/00 04:02 PM, MODI,SMITA (HP-NewJersey,ex1) wrote:
>
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I want to print few records into some file. Each record has some fields so I
> >want to print it in a such a way that each field or column should start at
> >certain point.
>
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