HI. . . I'm creating a mail message and would like to format the body using format. The only way I can think of to do that is write to a file and then reread the file into a variable which doesn't sound very perlish. Is there a better easier way - maybe something similar to the recent STDERR solution using tie (Catch messages to STDERR)? Sort of like:

format FORMATFH =
@<<<<
$yadda
.
write(FORMATFH);
# somehow get FORMATFH into $foo (the operative part)
# goes here --><--- 
# so that I can go like this:
$object_that_takes_string_arg->open($foo);
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Does that seem odd? Thanks for any ideas. . .

-- Andy