[ale] center justification in column using awk or perl

[Fletch]

>>>>> "Dow" == Dow Hurst <dhurst at kennesaw.edu> writes:

    Dow> I need to center justify a column either using awk or perl.
    Dow> I understand the awk printf command at the command line and
    Dow> don't see a way to use it to do this.  I am looking at the
    Dow> format/write statements in Perl, which will do what I want.
    Dow> Here is the code I have to work with in Perl currently that
    Dow> needs to be transformed from a printf to a format/write.

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        If you haven't cleared it up yet, perldoc perlform has all of
the details on formats.  If you don't mind installing extra modules,
you might want to also look at Text::Autoformat and use it to clean up
after the fact.

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