[ABE.pm] printing to a variable

[Ted Fiedler]

Perl6::Form - This is also a pretty nice module, althought I have not
used it yet, I have been quite eager to. It runs on Perl5.

http://search.cpan.org/~dconway/Perl6-Form-0.04/Form.pm

BTW - Ive been lurking on this list for quite some time, do you have
regular meetings?

Ted Fiedler

On 5/19/06, Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs-perl-abe at lists.manxome.org> wrote:
> * "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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