Hello hexcoder,

I don’t know much about Perl’s format command, but a search found Re^2: Use of uninitialized value in formline? which seems to have the answer:

use strict;
use warnings;
use open ':locale';

sub print_data
{
    my ($name, @f);

    format START =
.===================.
|@<<<<<<|           |
$name
|       |           |
.=======.===========.
|@<<<<<<|  @<</@>>  |~~
shift(@f) || '', shift(@f) || '', shift(@f) || ''
.=======.===========.
.

    binmode STDOUT, ':raw:crlf';
    my $ofh = select(STDOUT);
    $~      = "START";
    $name   = 'TAB';
    @f      = ('Step2', 0, 4, 'Step3', 4, 4);
    write;
}

print_data;

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Output:

 0:01 >perl 2079_SoPW.pl
.===================.
|TAB    |           |
|       |           |
.=======.===========.
|Step2  |     /  4  |
|Step3  |  4  /  4  |
.=======.===========.

 0:01 >

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Looks like a limitation of the format function: it wants to see a separate argument for each placeholder, and it doesn’t like undef.

Anyway, hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

In reply to Re: Avoid warnings while formatting with repeated format lines by Athanasius
in thread Avoid warnings while formatting with repeated format lines by hexcoder

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