Re: Format lines per page

The special variable $^L (or, in English, $FORMAT_FORMFEED) seems to have something to do with this. I can't find it in the Camel, but perlvar leads me to believe that's what you want.

By default, it's \f (formfeed), but you might set it to a blank string or undefined and see what happens. (I haven't tried this, as formats are one of the things I've never used in Perl. The shame!)

Update: It's on the middle of page 663 in Camel 3.

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RE: Re: Format lines per page by extremely (Priest) on Nov 08, 2000 at 12:50 UTC
Set that to undef and you'll get the header every 60 lines but no page feed. Bad bad bad. =) Set the page length, not the character it uses to flip pages. -- $you = new YOU; honk() if $you->love(perl)	[reply]
RE: Re: Format lines per page by Albannach (Monsignor) on Nov 08, 2000 at 10:19 UTC
FWIW, in Camel v2 it's page 133 (Formats starts on p121, it happens that I was looking at this stuff the other day). I rarely use formats but the more I read the more I think avoiding formats is a bit like avoiding modules ;-).	[reply]