[rrd-users] Formating legend problem

[Alex van den Bogaerdt]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 02:31:56PM +0000, Valentinos Charalambous wrote:

> "AREA:$top[0]#000000::$top[0]     "

How many characters are there in $top[0] ?
Answer: you don't know.
How many characters are there in $top[0] followed by 5 spaces ?
Answer: you still don't know.


What you want is ( $top[0] + 5 spaces ) to have a fixed width.


> Can i make any changes to the above and fix the problem or i should change 
> it completely?

I suggested using printf.  What is the problem ?