From: Its Me <itsme213@...>
Date: 2004-04-22T03:59:08+09:00
Subject: Re: printf / indent

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I don't know how long it would have taken me to figure that out ...

"Gennady" <gfb@tonesoft.com> wrote in message
news:4086BE43.1000606@tonesoft.com...
> Its Me wrote:
>
> > How can I control starting (left) indentation for printf? Pickaxe did
not
> > yield an answer. Or do I have to loop putting out spaces with
> >   IO#putc " "?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> >
> I would do
>
> indent = 3
> message = "Hello, world"
> printf "%#{indent}s%s\n", "", message
>
> or
>
> indent = 3
> message = "Hello, world"
> printf "#{' '*indent}%s", message
>
> Gennady.
>
>