[Dxspider-support] basic Perl programming question

[Brendan Minish]

Hi Everyone,
	I have been experimenting with adding my own user command to do
SH/FDX

I have created a new command called FDX which is a copy of the existing DX 
command with a new sub near the begining to define the output format to be used

sub formatf
{
	my $t = ztime($_[2]);
	my $d = cldate($_[2]);
	return sprintf "DX de %-7.7s%11.1f  %-12.12s %-s $t", "$_[4]:", $_[0], 
$_[1], $_[3] ;
}



I have never done any perl before so please forgive this basic question,

How do I position $t (the time variable ) a fixed no of characters from the 
beginning?

73
Brendan