Pro Perl Programming: From Professional to Advanced

© William "Bo" Rothwell of One Course Source, Inc. 2020

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4. Advanced Formatted Output

William “Bo” Rothwell¹ 

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Recall that many people consider Perl to stand for Practical Extraction and Report Language. You may be wondering what part of Perl performs the "Report" functionality. There are several features that provide this functionality as you will see in this chapter.

Review: The format statement

Basic format statement features are discussed in the Beginning Perl Programming: From Novice to Professional book. The goal of this section is to provide a quick review of what is covered in that book.

If you are already familiar with basic format statement usage, ...