I am writing a perl script to take SQL stats for queries in my Oracle database and output the results in a formatted way to a scalar, so that I can send an email. I found this format syntax, but I am not sure if it is still supported or if I am using it correctly. I just want to make the formatting easy to read, so that I can send it to the developers and they can see the worst SQL running in the Oracle database. Is there another way that I should write this code? Or do I just need to fix the syntax. 
sub print_query_results {
   my $dbh                = shift;
   my $sql_query          = shift;
   my $sql                = SQL::Beautify->new;
   my ( $sql_id, $min_last_load_time, $buffer_gets, $disk_reads, $exec
+utions, $sorts, $parse_calls, $sql_fulltext );
   my $return_scalar      = qq{
};

   my $sth = $dbh->prepare( $sql_query );
   $sth->execute();
   $sth->bind_columns( undef, \$sql_id, \$min_last_load_time, \$buffer
+_gets, \$disk_reads, \$executions, \$sorts, \$parse_calls, \$sql_full
+text );

   while( $sth->fetch() ) {
format OUTPUT =
@|||||||||||||||@||||||||||||||||||||@|||||||||||||||@|||||||||||||||@
+|||||||||||||||@|||||||||||||||@|||||||||||||||
'SQL_ID',       'min_last_load_time','buffer_gets',  'disk_reads',   '
+executions',   'sorts',        'parse_calls',
$sql_id,        $min_last_load_time, $buffer_gets,   $disk_reads,    $
+executions,    $sorts,         $parse_calls,

@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
+<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
$sql->query( $sql_fulltext )

.

open OUTPUT, '>', \$return_scalar;
write OUTPUT;
close OUTPUT;
}

   return $return_scalar;
}

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In reply to I need outputting the results of a query in a formatted way to a scalar, so that I can email the results by gandolf989

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