On Jan 30, Nikola Janceski said:
>printf " %8s ", $_; ## works because I put the 8 in the code
>
>but what if the variable $size has the size, how then do I use printf using
>$size in place of the 8?
Two ways come to mind:
printf " %${size}s ", $_;
and
printf " %*s ", $size, $_;
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