in reply to Once more, question about Formats


I posted an updated solution to this here Re: How to route a format into a variable.

The reason that ~~ doesn't really work with formline() is explained in perlfunc: 

   formline PICTURE,LIST
           ...

           Note that a format typically does one `formline' per
           line of form, but the `formline' function itself
           doesn't care how many newlines are embedded in the
           PICTURE.  This means that the `~' and `~~' tokens
           will treat the entire PICTURE as a single line.
           You may therefore need to use multiple formlines
           to implement a single record format, just like the
           format compiler.

           ...

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Re: Re: Once more, question about Formats
by ppm (Novice) on Feb 14, 2003 at 12:42 UTC
    Hey jmcnamara,

    youre the best ;o) thx a lot! i've learned much about formats in perl. i never looked at this topic before but now i need to use it.

    Btw .. do you know a better way to make a output like this in my e.g.? or is the usage of formats allready up to dat?

    beste regardes

    ppm

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      I think in your case you should be fine with formats. However, if you have something more complex or would like to split up code and layout, then a templating system might be a good solution, see e.g. a discussion on Text::Template here at PM, with pointers to other templating modules.

      -- Hofmator

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