Formatting Your Output

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

if i execute this code i get a compile error as"Format not terminated at end of line syntax error" provide me a solution for this....

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

 $~ = "MYFORMAT";
 write;

 format MYFORMAT =
 ===================================
 Here is the text I want to display.
 ===================================
 .
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Re: Formatting Your Output by choroba (Cardinal) on Aug 29, 2013 at 07:02 UTC
The lines of the script (except the shebang line) seem to start with a space. It is OK for commands, but the format must end with a dot that is the first character on the line. Remove the space before the dot. لսႽ† ᥲᥒ⚪⟊Ⴙᘓᖇ Ꮅᘓᖇ⎱ Ⴙᥲ𝇋ƙᘓᖇ	[reply]
Re^2: Formatting Your Output by varalaxmibbnl (Acolyte) on Aug 29, 2013 at 07:08 UTC
thanks its working now	[reply]

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