On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 01:06:00PM -0400, David Gilden wrote:
> I am trying with out much success to get the following to happen:
>
> Using this statement:
>
> $average = sprintf ("%2.1f", ($total / $scores));
>
> I want my numbers to line up like so: [note the left padding with the ' ']
>
>
Try %5.1f in your sprintf
The first number is the width of the field, in this case your format, @,
is specifying 5 wide.
Alernatively you could make your format @##.# and get rid of the sprintf
$average = $total / $scores;
- Original Message -
From: "David Gilden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED
Try adding the second and third line below:
$average = sprintf ("%2.1f", ($total / $scores)); #original line
$average = ' ' x (2 - int(log($average)/log(10))) . $average;
$average =~ s/\.0+//;
The second line effectively takes the log base 10 of the average, and adds
additional whitespace to p
