On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, John W. Krahn wrote:
> printf is based on the C language printf function and can be a bit
> tricky.  The format "%-5s" will not truncate a value longer than 5
> characters but it will pad a shorter value with spaces.  To truncate a
> longer value use the format "%-5.5s".  Also, the variable @fields[14] is
> an array slice, you want a scalar $fields[14].
> printf( NEWQUOTES "%-5.5s", $fields[14] );

Thank you John and everyone else.  The .5 worked.

-Scott



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