beast wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>
> Why this following code has not working as expected?
>
> print "Number of element(s) : " . sprintf("%10d", keys(%hash) ) . "\n";
keys(%hash) returns the hash keys as a list, so
sprintf("%10d", keys(%hash) )
is like
sprintf("%10d", 'key3', 'key4', 'key1', 'key2', 'key5');
so the first key will be formatted as %10d and returned as a string.
I suggest you write
printf "Number of element(s) : %10d\n", scalar keys %hash;
HTH,
Rob
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