Hello all, a slight mystery today,

I have a small project that I'm using formats with, the problem is that I want to save what the format gives back in a variable, and not printed to a Filehandle. It seems that you, well can't :) This is somewhat what I'm doing: 

 

format TEST
@<<<<<<<<<<@<<<<<<<<<<
$first_name      $last_name 
. 

my $first_name  = 'justin'; 
my $last_name  = 'simoni'; 


my $fullname = write TEST;

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Just looking at the above example, you can tell it's wrong, as write... well writes to a filehandle, but the example does show what I want to do.

Is there a way to do what I want? If not... why not? I bet there's a perl module for this or something...

-justin simoni
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