henry was once rumoured to have said: [Mess cleaned up with M-q - yay for emacs - C.] > I need to add blank to each string from a file so that they are of > the same length.
read: perldoc -tf sprintf Simliarly: perldoc -tf chomp is also significant to your query. > then locate them on screen as I like. read: perldoc Curses and: man ncurses > It seems that Perl has no concept of file-coordinates(row,colum), > align. Thats because files don't have row/column coordinates. > It may not be Perl's speciality to do thing as above. Perl has no specific speciality - its an all-purpose language. [There is a reason its referred to as the duct tape of the internet]. As Greeno has suggested, you should go out and purchase a good book - a lot of this material is covered by the books - some of it is covered by the perl FAQ (perldoc perlfaq). If you're after recommended reading material: If you've never programmed before: * Learning Perl (ORA) If you've programmed other languages before: * Programming Perl (ORA) And I recommend that you also get The Perl Cookbook (ORA). You can buy the ORA Perl Bookshelf on CD which includes Learning Perl, Programming Perl, Advanced Perl Programming, Learning Perl on Win32 and the Perl Cookbook. (It also includes a print-copy of Perl in a Nutshell). All of these books should be avaiable from your local booksellers. C. -- --==============================================-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==============================================-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
