Re: Escaping an @ or a ^ in a format

Apparently (according to perlform), you can escape a "^" or a "@" like this:

format Ident =
I have an @ here.
        "@"
.
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That said, though, I'm not sure that you want to be writing normal (non-formatted data) into the format.

According to perlform, one format line should contain either: a comment; a "picture" line describing a format; an argument line giving the values to plug into the previous picture line.

So perhaps you should just use print statements, or investigate the use of format headers, instead?

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RE: Re: Escaping an @ or a ^ in a format by btrott (Parson) on Feb 08, 2000 at 23:04 UTC
A followup: when I wrote to use print statements "instead", I meant instead of the non-formatted data (like header information); you can alternate print and write statements, I believe.	[reply]