[ABE.pm] printing to a variable

Phil Lawrence phil at five-lawrences.com
Mon May 22 05:14:59 PDT 2006


On May 19, 2006, at 1:31 PM, Faber J. Fedor wrote:

> 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.

Yes, memory tells me there is a special variable that contains the  
formatted text or something.  Browse through the special variable  
section of the camel.

But Ricardo is right...  format is anathema!.  I always used  
Text::Reform.  Very nice.

Phil



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