Hello all, I like format function, but I miss output to scalars. write always print to STDOUT, or filehandle, but I need access contents to scalar. I found in docs one solution, but it is not much nice:
use Carp; sub swrite { croak "usage: swrite PICTURE ARGS" unless @_; my $format = shift; $^A = ""; formline($format,@_); return $^A; } $string = swrite(<<'END', 1, 2, 3); Check me out @<<< @||| @>>> END print $string; ...but when I have in formating template lets say 40 variables... I'm just curious, if there are some other possibilities. Thanks /brano -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>