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Hello dear Monks,

I'm trying to split the following line of code :

printf ("\n\n   %-70s" , "Creating printable report $ARGV[0].html ( ne
+w )  ... ");
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Tried

printf ("\n\n   %-70s" , "Creating printable report" . 
  "$ARGV[0].html ( new )  ... ");
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printf ("\n\n   %-70s" , 
  "Creating printable report $ARGV[0].html ( new )  ... ");
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added ()'s but always got 'printf (...) interpreted as function'.

I found it may have something to do with 'scalar/list context' or missing brackets, but not the way to solve the prob.

Thanks

Have a nice day

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