[Israel.pm] FORMAT question

Offer Kaye offer.kaye at gmail.com
Tue Jul 4 20:18:07 EEST 2006


Hi Perl Gurus,
In trying to output text tables, I tried to use Perl's FORMAT (perldoc
perlform) and I've run into a problem.
It seems I cannot define 2 different formats for the same filehandle.
So for example, I can't have 2 different tables (with different
formats) in the same file.

A workaround is to close the file, reopen in append mode with a
different filehandle name and define the second format with this name.
Ugly, but works.
A better workaround I've found is to use Text::Table :)

In-spite of having workarounds, I'd still appreciate answers to the
the following 2 questions:
1. Is there another way to define 2 different formats for the same file?
2. If not, how would you print a table in text format? Text::Table or
some other way?

Regards,
-- 
Offer Kaye



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