I can't speak for anyone else, but I use formats with email reports in some of my programs. It just makes them more readable.

A longstanding problem I had was the fact that you can't use things like IO::String or any other tied filehandle usually. However, as I learned in format and IO::String, there are ways to keep it in memory. My prefered method: IO::File->new_tmpfile() because it does permit the normal usage of format declarations.

Just sharing what others shared with me. Good luck.

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