in reply to Re: stuck on formatting
in thread stuck on formatting

You need to quote the strings on the second line of STDOUT_TOP, as if they were perl code ,so like

format STDOUT_TOP = @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< @|||||||||| @||||| @||||| "User", "Command", "CPU%", "Mem%" .

Might be easier to switch to Perl6::Form, then you only deal with regular function syntax