I meant, counting characters from left to right, $test will occupy charcater position
20 through 25, the print out will look like this.
,abcd ,
there are other string variables before and after that $test of course. Greg
Meckes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> You can try:
>
> $test = "abcd";
>
> $test = sprintf "%24s" , $test;
>
>
> Greg
>
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