Padding Alignment

Pad text and numbers into a stable report row.

padding_alignment.pl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $code = ;
my $count = 5;
my $row = sprintf("%-6s|%03d", $code, $count);

print "code=$code\n";
print "count=$count\n";
print "row=$row\n";

use strict;
use warnings;

my $code = ;
my $count = 5;
my $row = sprintf("%-6s|%03d", $code, $count);

print "code=$code\n";
print "count=$count\n";
print "row=$row\n";

use strict;
use warnings;

my $code = ;
my $count = 5;
my $row = sprintf("%-6s|%03d", $code, $count);

print "code=$code\n";
print "count=$count\n";
print "row=$row\n";

padding-alignment Width specifiers help columns line up in fixed text output.