It sounds like you're asking why the heading is displayed at the top of each page. If so, your OUTF_TOP format is automatically used at the top of each page.

I'm not sure if you can stop it from printing a header after the first page, but you can change the top of page header to reduce the number of lines printed. I've not used this myself but it is detailed in O'Reillys Programming Perl p 237/238.

The only other thing I can think of is don't use OUTF_TOP. Set up an alternate name for your header and write that before writing the rest of the report.

elbow

In reply to Re: creating reports without reoccuring heading by elbow
in thread creating reports without reoccuring heading by Anonymous Monk

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