Is this a better approach ?

There is no "better or worse" approach here based upon your problem statement. Given that you can do either, I would use the easiest one, which I would guess is method 1? If not then use method 2.

Now of course how difficult your output format is for the "consumer to consume" is something to be considered. There is not a "one size fits all" answer for this. Sometimes it makes more sense for your program to do more work so that other programs have to do less work and sometimes not!

Can you put some more "flesh on these bones" so that some application specific recommendation can be made? There is no generic A is better than B for this sort of thing.

In reply to Re: File dynamic write operations by Marshall
in thread File dynamic write operations by perlpal

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