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string - right adjusted ?

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MoshiachNow

MoshiachNow

IS-IT--Management
Feb 6, 2002
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HI,

I know how toleft adjust a string by padding it with spaces:
$TEMP = pack("A8",$TEMP);

But how do I right adjust it - padding spaces from the left ?
thanks

Long live king Moshiach !
 
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To right-justify you need to use sprintf:
Code: 
$TEMP = sprintf( '%8s', $TEMP );
 
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