Hey,
I don't know how it scales to complex reports, but some people tend to forget that Perl was initially designed to extract AND report. I can produce some nice preformated reports with it (you can even tweak it to produce HTML).

You may want to look at the perlform for more info on the subject.

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Ta for that OeufMayo I've used formats for reports but they become very unwieldy with complicated wide reports with multiple variable blocks and sub totals etc.
I think Data::Reporter::RepFormat is a reasonable choice, but - if only it worked :-)
the following the following code falls in a heap

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Data::Reporter::RepFormat;

my $sheet = new Data::Reporter::RepFormat(124,10)
    or die "Wouldn't let me";

$sheet->Move(120,0);
$sheet->Print('TEST');
$sheet->MVPrint(0,1,'Next line at start');
$sheet->Move(0,2);
print "Report has ", $sheet->Nlines()," lines\n";
$sheet->Out();
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Falls over in a horrible heap with

Report has 3 lines
Can't locate object method "Out" via package "RepFormatPtr"
at /home/jonathan/Reportformat.test line 12.
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From my reading of the pod I'd expect the above to work and print the report to STDOUT. Doh!