On 8/15/07, Mathew Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How would I go about sub-listing something. For instance, if I have a work > order that has been worked on during different days, I want to list the work > order once and each day below it. It would look like this: > > Ticket ID Subject Date hh:mm > -------------------------------------------------------- > 12345 Ticket Subject MM/DD/YYYY 1:00 > MM/DD/YYYY 2:00 > MM/DD/YYYY 3:00 > > So basically, I need the ID and Subject to only be printed on the first line > and > only the Date and hh:mm on each successive line. How would I do this with > format? Would I need two different formats? One for the first line and > another > for each subsequent line?
There may be a simpler way. For example, if you're willing to use the destructive caret, you could write a format including something like this: ^>>>>> ^>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> @>/@>/@>>> @>:@> $ticket_id_copy, $ticket_subject_copy, $month, $day, $year, $hour, $minute (And do you really need to use the ambiguous format MM/DD/YYYY instead of the logical descending order of YYYY/MM/DD?) When you refill the two _copy variables, they'll be consumed on the next write. But the simplest way of all may be to avoid using formats. Formats are wonderful when they do what you want, they do all that you want, and they can do all you will ever want. But if you will ever want more than formats can give you, you'll find yourself ripping out the output code of your program and re-writing it from scratch. That's the heartbreak of formats. It may be that you're able to do all you want with formats; there are a lot of tricks out there. But in the long run, formats may or may not be the easy way to get the job done. Good luck with it! --Tom Phoenix Stonehenge Perl Training -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
