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Hello,
my problem is very simple, but I cannot find the answer in "Learning
Perl" nor in the manpages:
Which FORMAT in printf makes the numbers 1,2,3,.. look like 001,002,003..?
Hubert

Hubert Gabler <> wrote:
>Hello,
>my problem is very simple, but I cannot find the answer in "Learning
>Perl" nor in the manpages:
>Which FORMAT in printf makes the numbers 1,2,3,.. look like 001,002,003..?
>Hubert

The magic word is "padding".

http://www.google.com/search?q=printf+padding

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Quoth Hubert Gabler <>:
> Hello,
> my problem is very simple, but I cannot find the answer in "Learning
> Perl" nor in the manpages:
> Which FORMAT in printf makes the numbers 1,2,3,.. look like 001,002,003..?
> Hubert

perldoc -f printf says 'printf FILEHANDLE FORMAT, LIST' is equivalent to
'print FILEHANDLE sprintf FORMAT, LIST' (with a caveat), so you need to
look in perldoc -f sprintf. This contains a full list of the conversion
specifiers supported by Perl.

Ben
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>>>>> "HG" == Hubert Gabler <> writes:

HG> my problem is very simple, but I cannot find the answer in
HG> "Learning Perl" nor in the manpages: Which FORMAT in printf makes
HG> the numbers 1,2,3,.. look like 001,002,003..? Hubert

FAQ

perldoc -q pad

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>...you need to look in perldoc -f sprintf.

Thanks to all who gave me this hint. I simply overlooked the link from
printf to sprintf. I promise to read the manpages more careful in the
future before asking the experts!
Kind regards,
Hubert

Hubert Gabler wrote:
> Hello,
> my problem is very simple, but I cannot find the answer in "Learning
> Perl" nor in the manpages:
> Which FORMAT in printf makes the numbers 1,2,3,.. look like
> 001,002,003..? Hubert

%03d

This will give you 3 zero-padding digits (if you remove the zero from
the format, it will be the same width, but space-padded instead.)

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