On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Troy May wrote:
> What do the letters after the "%02" mean? I know about "%02d", but I came
> across a few scripts with "%02u" in it. I've never seen that, what does it
> mean? What's the difference between the "d" and the "u"? And what ELSE can
> you possibly use there?
Check the documentation on sprintf(). I don't have perl with me, but I
think "perldoc -f sprintf" will find it, otherwise you can look through the
perlfunc section of the docs for sprintf. Offhand I'd guess that %02u
refers to an unsigned integer in decimal format?
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