•Re: writing to a variable

See IO::String, or use the "open a scalar-ref" in recent versions of Perl.

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bull;Re: writing to a variable by Anonymous Monk on Oct 20, 2003 at 16:51 UTC
Thanks all for your replies. Unfortunately we're using Perl 5.6, Win32. We can't go to 5.8, as some of the libraries don't exist for that version. Likewise, IO::Scalar isn't available as a ppm package. However, I have tried using IO::String - and I'm obviously missing something. I'm a newbie, so apologies in advance for whatever is wrong with my code: `use IO::String; use strict; my $output; tie *IO, IO::String->new($output); my $col1 = "first"; my $col2 = "second"; write (IO); print $output; format IO = =============== ==================== @<<<<<<<<<<<<<: @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< $col1, $col2` [download] I was hoping that printing $output would give me the report. Any advice appreciated	[reply] [d/l]

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bull;Re: writing to a variable
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 20, 2003 at 16:51 UTC

use IO::String;
use strict;
my $output;
tie *IO, IO::String->new($output);

my $col1 = "first";
my $col2 = "second";

write (IO);

print $output;

format IO =
=============== ====================
@<<<<<<<<<<<<<: @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
$col1, $col2
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