[Kc] repeating \t TAB in print statement?
Frank Wiles
frank at wiles.org
Thu Dec 14 12:29:29 PST 2006
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:20:23 -0600
"Daryl Fallin" <darylvf at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a totally newbie question, but I am doing a recursive
> subroutine and I would like to print a tab (\t) for each recursion
> into the subroutine.
>
> I thought something like print ("\t{$level} $rest $of $mydata");
> would work.
You're looking for something like this:
print "\t" x $level . "$rest $of $mydata";
The construct "x" tells print to repeat the previous part $level
times.
Hope that helps.
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