Formatted printing - splittin money between the grandchildren

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Source code: christmas Module: P207

$gift = 749000.00;
$kids = 35;

for ($ngkids=1; $ngkids <= $kids; $ngkids++) {
        $each = $gift / $ngkids;
        $result = sprintf ("Each one of %-3d gets %010.2f\n",$ngkids,$each);
        print $result;
        }

__END__

Output:
-bash-3.2$ perl christmas
Each one of 1 gets 0749000.00
Each one of 2 gets 0374500.00
Each one of 3 gets 0249666.67
Each one of 4 gets 0187250.00
Each one of 5 gets 0149800.00
Each one of 6 gets 0124833.33
Each one of 7 gets 0107000.00
Each one of 8 gets 0093625.00
Each one of 9 gets 0083222.22
Each one of 10 gets 0074900.00
Each one of 11 gets 0068090.91
Each one of 12 gets 0062416.67
Each one of 13 gets 0057615.38
Each one of 14 gets 0053500.00
Each one of 15 gets 0049933.33
Each one of 16 gets 0046812.50
Each one of 17 gets 0044058.82
Each one of 18 gets 0041611.11
Each one of 19 gets 0039421.05
Each one of 20 gets 0037450.00
Each one of 21 gets 0035666.67
Each one of 22 gets 0034045.45
Each one of 23 gets 0032565.22
Each one of 24 gets 0031208.33
Each one of 25 gets 0029960.00
Each one of 26 gets 0028807.69
Each one of 27 gets 0027740.74
Each one of 28 gets 0026750.00
Each one of 29 gets 0025827.59
Each one of 30 gets 0024966.67
Each one of 31 gets 0024161.29
Each one of 32 gets 0023406.25
Each one of 33 gets 0022696.97
Each one of 34 gets 0022029.41
Each one of 35 gets 0021400.00
-bash-3.2$

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