thanks a lot! -----Original Message----- From: Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 1:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Formats
On Feb 1, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Why does the following not work for me? > >format NAME = >TEST >---- >@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< >$test >.. > >$test = "asdfjkl;"; > >select(NAME); >write(); That tries writing to the filehandle NAME, too. Instead of select(NAME), do: $~ = "NAME"; That will set STDOUT's default format name to "NAME". -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
