Hi All:

I'm trying to switch from using old-style formats to those provided by Perl6::Form. Simple reports seem to work fine, but now I'm trying to convert several scripts that retrieve a list of column values from MySQL and then print a formatted list of the returned results. Thebse can be several pages in length, so I was trying to use the 'page' and 'header' options to print headings at the top of each page, breaking the list at a defined page size. From the documentation, I can't put this together so it works. The script basically prints inside a loop which fetches each selected row from the database. If I try

print form
    { page => { length => 10,
                number => 1,
                feed => "\f",
                footer => "\n",
                header => { first => "================================
+=====================================\n"
                                   . "|                   xxxxxxxxxxxx
+xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx                    |\n"
                                   . "|                     xxxxxxxxxx
+xxxxxxxxxxxx                      |\n"
                                   . "|                               
+                                    |\n"
                                   . "|                          List 
+of Players                          |\n"
                                   . "|===============================
+====================================|\n"
                                   . "|Last                |First     
+          |MI|Suffix|Nickname  |  ID|\n"
                                   . "|_______________________________
+____________________________________|",
                          other =>   "================================
+=====================================\n"
                                   . "|                          List 
+of Players                          |\n"
                                   . "|===============================
+====================================|\n"
                                   . "|Last                |First     
+          |MI|Suffix|Nickname  |  ID|\n"
                                   . "|-------------------------------
+------------------------------------|",
                     }
            }
};
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before the loop and then use another 'print form' inside the loop to print the values from each row, I get the first page headers followed by enough blank lines to fill a page, then the normal list of rows. Not what I wanted. If I try putting the page/header information in the single 'print form' inside the loop, I get get the first page header pluse the row information for each and every row. Also not what I want.

Obviously, I'm misunderstanding something, but what? I searched the web for eamples of using Perl6::Form, seeking understanding, but found none.

I would be eternally appreciative of any help you could offer. Thanks.

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