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Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
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Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

by Nathan Patwardhan, Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour
June 2002
Beginner content levelBeginner
759 pages
80h 42m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

formline

Synopsis

formline picture, variables
                  

Internal function used by formats, although you may also call it. It formats a list of values (variables) according to the contents of picture, placing the output into the format output accumulator, $^A. When a write is done, the contents of $^A are written to a filehandle, but you can also read $^A yourself and set $^A back to “”. Note that a format typically does one formline per line of form, but the formline function itself doesn’t care how many newlines are embedded in the picture. This means that the ~ and ~~ tokens will treat the entire picture as a single line. Thus, you may need to use multiple formlines to implement a single-record format, such as the format compiler.

Be careful if you put double quotes around the picture, since an @ character may be taken to mean the beginning of an array name. formline always returns true. See Chapter 4 for more information.

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