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Subject	Author	Date
printf + escape code	aequites	05-22-2008

Posted by aequites on May 22, 2008, 12:36 am

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Could someone help to explain why the second column is not formatted
with the correct width when escape codes are used?

$ perl -e 'printf ":%-20s:%-20s:\n", "string1", "\e[32mstring2\e[m"'
:string1 :string2 :

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