Re: Perl script question for gurus

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From: Bart Lateur
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 00:00

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lparillo@newshost.li.net (Parillo) wrote:

>Will you have to do a printf in order to get the leading zeros?

What's wrong with sprintf (not printf)? Except that it's cryptic for
non-C programmers! ;-)

You can also use this:

	$_ = substr("0" x $count . $number, -$count);

>BTW, the perldoc on printf and sprintf is not helpful to non-c 
>programmners. Is there a better source (other than deja news?)

The POD's used to be crap for this. They referred to the documentation
for "C"! Aaaarghh!!!

But, I must say, the latest updates for PERLFUNC.POD have improved a
lot. Now they do contain all the basic info. Thanks guys!

	Bart.

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From: bart.mediamind@tornado.be (Bart Lateur)
Subject: Re: Perl script question for gurus
Date: 1997/09/11
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