To the best of my knowledge, printf (and sprintf) will never truncate a field that is too long for the width specified in the format string
s?printf does what you tell it
printf "%1.1s$/", 'foy'; yields 'f',
printf "%s$/", 'foy'; yields 'foy'.
As for
Limbic~Regions note, you can't convert variable width "records" to fixed width ones without possibly undergoing some truncation ;)
MJD says you
can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!
I run a Win32 PPM
repository for perl 5.6x+5.8x. I take requests.
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