[ABE.pm] printing to a variable

[Ricardo SIGNES]

* "Faber J. Fedor" <faber at linuxnj.com> [2006-05-19T14:31:37]
> Can I print TO a variable?
> 
> I want to use Perl's report formatting capability to generate text
> output but I want to store the output in a variable as opposed to
> printing to a file.

by "report formatting" do you mean "format"?  Format is the devil.  Avoid it.
Consider using a real templating system, like Template.pm, instead.

...but yet.  You need to create a filehandle that can write to a scalar.

  use IO::String;

  my $string;
  my $io = IO::String->new($string);

  print {$io} "This will be appended to the string.";

-- 
rjbs
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