Hi Foxcub,

Section 3.2.41 of the Camel Book seems to imply that you can put formats in modules just like any other thingy. Formats live in their own namespace and can be qualified with package names, so that answers your first question.

As to variable scoping, you'll just have to be careful. Lexically scoped variables (my $variable;) have to be declared before the format (so before the use ReportFormats; in your case, while dynamically scoped (local $variable;) stuff just has to be declared in the block that calls the write() using the format.

As usual, more information can be found in perlform.

CU
Robartes-

In reply to Re: Modules of Formats by robartes
in thread Modules of Formats by Tanalis

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.