Re: Align Text

[James Edward Gray II]

On Dec 18, 2003, at 12:03 AM, Bill Jastram wrote:

James:
I'm happy to help, but keep your replies on the list so we can all 
learn/help.

Can printf set the value in spaces of tab (\t)? I need to do three 
column
output with perl for mailing labels.
You bet:

>perl -e 'printf "%20s %20s %20s\n", "James", "Edward", "Gray"'
               James               Edward                 Gray
Three columns of 20 character width right there.  Does that answer your 
question?

James

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