Removing Trailing Spaces In Printf For A String

[mark1110]

Is there a way to use printf to trim the trailing spaces. If I have an expression like:

printf '<%-10s>', "Hello";

It prints "Hello " with 5 trailing spaces.

I would like to print something like this:

"Hello"

without the trailing spaces. I tried using a trim function I found by googling trim spaces perl with no luck. Is there another way of doing this.

 

[TrojanWarBlade]

The "%-10s" forces 10 spaces.
If you don't want them then why use printf?
You could do this for example:

print '<', 'Hello', '>';
print '<', $variable, '>';

Trojan.

 

[KevinADC]

hehehe..... thats funny. You tell printf to add spaces on the right if necessary to pad a string to ten places, but then you don't want the spaces! Try not using printf and just use print.

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- Kevin, perl coder unexceptional!

 

[mark1110]

Thank you for you help. I am very new to PERL and it has been a long time since I used the printf statement. The print statement did the trick.

 

[brigmar]

Alternatively, just remove the formatting from the printf statement...

printf '<%s>', "Hello";