How can I align text to be left-justified using fprintf?

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Tyler
Tyler on 2 Apr 2014
Commented: Tyler on 2 Apr 2014
While using fprintf I would get text that aligns at the end of the word by default. I need it to be able to align at the beginning or left hand side of the word. Thanks.

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dpb
dpb on 2 Apr 2014
>> fprintf('%10s\n','abcdef')
abcdef
>> fprintf('%-10s\n','abcdef')
abcdef
>>
doc fprintf
read up on format string in the links thereto...

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