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Re^4: Format, empty vars, and fixed-width records

by ikegami (Patriarch)
on Apr 22, 2008 at 02:56 UTC ( [id://682073]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^3: Format, empty vars, and fixed-width records
in thread Format, empty vars, and fixed-width records

You could handle number overflow like Excel does: 

sub format_num { 
   my $s = sprintf('%5.2f', $_[0]);
   return length($s) > 5 ? 'XXXXX' : $s;
}

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Re^5: Format, empty vars, and fixed-width records
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Apr 22, 2008 at 03:32 UTC
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