--- Scott Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > below is a snip of a script that is to monitor disk usage, and I want to > format the output in a fashion > like this : > > ___usage_in_bytes___\t___directory_name___ > > the problem being that I can't find out what the formatting characters > mean in any of my books here. > Can anyone explain them ?? > > Thanks!
Scott, 'perldoc perlform' should tell you everything you needed to know about this :) Cheers, Curtis "Ovid" Poe ===== "Ovid" on http://www.perlmonks.org/ Someone asked me how to count to 10 in Perl: push@A,$_ for reverse q.e...q.n.;for(@A){$_=unpack(q|c|,$_);@a=split//; shift@a;shift@a if $a[$[]eq$[;$_=join q||,@a};print $_,$/for reverse @A __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
