How do I use sprintf to zero fill to a variable length in Perl?

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Published on 2010-03-18T15:58:08Z Indexed on 2010/03/18 16:01 UTC
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I want to use perl's sprintf to zerofill a variable.

sprintf("%08d", $var);

but I want the dynamically determine how many digits to zero fill.

How do I replace the "8" in sprintf("%08d", $var) with a variable called $zerofill.

Thanks.

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