#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $name = 'name';
my $home = "town\r\n";
{
local $\= "\r\n";
binmode STDOUT;
format STDOUT =
@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<  \r\n
$name,              $home
.
write STDOUT;
}
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Darn. Well, TIMTOWTDI.

You could do:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $name = 'name';
my $home = "town";
my $form = "\@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< \@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<\r\n";
formline($form, $name, $home);
print $^A;
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See perlvar, formline for fiddling with the formats. But maybe it would be just easier to postprocess?

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $name = 'name';
my $home = 'town';

printknecht();      # let's fork us a scribe

write;

format STDOUT =
@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
$name,              $home
.

sub printknecht {
    return if my $pid = open(STDOUT, "|-"); # return if parent.
    die "cannot fork: $!" unless defined $pid;
    while (<STDIN>) {
        chop;
        print $_."\r\n";
    } 
    exit;
}
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See Playing with STDIN and STDOUT for some prosa around this technique.

--shmem

_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}

$\ is the output record seperator for just the print operator (and not formats). You're probably better off using sprintf instead of formats.

-derby