Is it possible to assign the output of the printf function to a scalar variable instead of writing the output to STDOUT?
For instance, I would like the output of printf stored in $text: $format = '| %4s | %-16s | %6s | %6s | %4s |'; @data = 'col1' .. 'col5'; $text = printf $format, @data; However, what actually happens is the value 1 is stored in $text and the formatted data are written to STDOUT. I assume the value of 1 is a successful exit code. I was able to accomplish this task via two steps: $list = join ',' => @data; $text = `perl -e "printf '$format', $list"`; $text now contains '| col1 | col2 | col3 | col4 | col5 |' Does anyone know of a "simpler" way? TIMTOWTDI Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
