Greetings Monks,
I'm new to perl, and I've been looking at working example of how I may utilise Perl format to style my output in a certain manner. Many of these examples show that this reporting feature is based around the filehandler, problem is i'm pulling stuff out of arrays. I'm kindna clueless on how should I go about this. Any advise is appreciated. Thank you.

for example

sub test{
foreach my $stuffs (@{$object->{'school'}}) {
     print "Student Name: $item->{'sname'}\n" ;
     print "class: $item->{'class'}\n\n";
     print "enrolled Date: $item->{'EnrolDate'}\n\n";
     print "class id: $item->{'classid'}\n\n";    
    }
}

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Instead of using print, I want to use format. In this case, how should I use format? is the format name test? which variables should I use for the format pictures?

In reply to Perl Format on arrays by jazzaddict

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