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SolidState has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, Can anyone tell me if it is possible to define 2 different formats for the same filehandle?

The reason I am asking is that I want to print 2 different tables to the same text file and I don't want to use printf statements. For me at least, code that uses printf to print something as complex as a text table is hard to both write and read, hard to understand and hard to debug. It's also ugly, to boot :)

My current workaround is to close the file, reopen in append mode with a different filehandle name and define the second format with this name. Ugly, but works. Any other/better solutions?

Thanks in advance,
SolidState