in reply to About Tabbed Printing

You might want to check out various table-generating modules. For example, I browsed a recent CPAN update to Text::TabularDisplay and it looks fairly nice. I'm sure there are others. That might be easier/nicer than messing with formats or other things.

-xdg

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