Thread Subject: sprintf fixed number of spaces per column?

In Fortran you can do columns by using printf and allowing for only a certain number of digits, but I it seems as though Matlab is a little different.

sprintf('%-5f %-5f',123456.1,123456.1)

ans =

123456.100000 123456.100000

if I remember right, something like this in fortran this would return

ans=
1234512345

how do I get there to be a set number of spaces available per item, and characters that overflow are simply not printed?

Thanks
--John