Re: sprintf format question

2008-06-05 Thread April
On Jun 4, 8:00 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Dixon) wrote: > April wrote: > > sprintf( "%s%$Fmt%s", ("%$Fmt=|", $TestStr, "|")) > > > This is in Perl for Dummies, 4th ed, p160. > > > I'm trying to understand this ... > > > the first part, "%s%$Fmt%s", my understanding is the format part, > > which spe

Re: sprintf format question

2008-06-04 Thread Rob Dixon
April wrote: > sprintf( "%s%$Fmt%s", ("%$Fmt=|", $TestStr, "|")) > > This is in Perl for Dummies, 4th ed, p160. > > I'm trying to understand this ... > > the first part, "%s%$Fmt%s", my understanding is the format part, > which specifies the formats for the second part, thelist part, ("% > $Fmt=

sprintf format question

2008-06-04 Thread April
sprintf( "%s%$Fmt%s", ("%$Fmt=|", $TestStr, "|")) This is in Perl for Dummies, 4th ed, p160. I'm trying to understand this ... the first part, "%s%$Fmt%s", my understanding is the format part, which specifies the formats for the second part, thelist part, ("% $Fmt=|", $TestStr, "|"): %s for "%$F

Re: Format Question

2007-08-16 Thread Chas Owens
On 8/16/07, Mathew Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip > Would you recommend straight Perl to handle the formatting or is there another > method that can handle this? snip There are many template modules in CPAN that might make your life easier, but in general I stick to printf. -- To unsubsc

Re: Format Question

2007-08-16 Thread Mathew Snyder
Tom Phoenix wrote: > 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:

Re: Format Question

2007-08-15 Thread Tom Phoenix
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

Format Question

2007-08-15 Thread Mathew Snyder
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 SubjectDate hh:mm

Re: FORMAT question

2006-07-05 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
Offer Kaye wrote: > Hi, > Can anyone tell me if it is possible to define 2 different formats for > the same filehandle? > Yes. Use the select command to select the filehandle of the file. Then use the special variables $~ and $^ to change the format. The format name can be anything you want but i

Re: FORMAT question

2006-07-05 Thread Mumia W.
Offer Kaye wrote: On 7/5/06, Jeff Peng wrote: Hello, I think there are not relation between your implement and the filehandle. As far as I can tell, a format must have the same name as the filehandle to which you want to print it, and once you define a format you cannot change it. So these 2

Re: FORMAT question

2006-07-05 Thread Offer Kaye
On 7/5/06, John W. Krahn wrote: #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; sub _print_format1 { # output table 1, with 3 columns $^A = ''; formline <<'FORMAT', @_; @<< @>>> @< FORMAT $^A; } Wow. That's... impressive. Ver

Re: FORMAT question

2006-07-05 Thread John W. Krahn
Offer Kaye wrote: > Hi, Hello, > Can anyone tell me if it is possible to define 2 different formats for > the same filehandle? > > The reason I am asking is that I want to print 2 different tables to > the same text file and I don't want to use printf statements. For me > at least, code that use

Re: FORMAT question

2006-07-05 Thread Mumia W.
Offer Kaye wrote: Hi, Can anyone tell me if it is possible to define 2 different formats for the same filehandle? The reason I am asking is that I want to print 2 different tables to the same text file and I don't want to use printf statements. For me at least, code that uses printf to print som

Re: FORMAT question

2006-07-04 Thread Jeff Peng
Here a script that illustrates my current workaround: #! /usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; my $outfile = "file_with_tables.txt"; open(OUT,">$outfile") or die "Couldn't open $outfile for writing: $!\n"; print OUT "Table 1:\n"; _print_format1(1,15,"foo"); _print_format1(2,8,"bar"); clos

Re: FORMAT question

2006-07-04 Thread Offer Kaye
On 7/5/06, Jeff Peng wrote: Hello, I think there are not relation between your implement and the filehandle. As far as I can tell, a format must have the same name as the filehandle to which you want to print it, and once you define a format you cannot change it. So these 2 facts mean you can'

RE: FORMAT question

2006-07-04 Thread Jeff Peng
The reason I am asking is that I want to print 2 different tables to the same text file and I don't want to use printf statements. For me at least, code that uses printf to print something as complex as a text table is hard to both write and read, hard to understand and hard to debug. It's also

FORMAT question

2006-07-04 Thread Offer Kaye
Hi, Can anyone tell me if it is possible to define 2 different formats for the same filehandle? The reason I am asking is that I want to print 2 different tables to the same text file and I don't want to use printf statements. For me at least, code that uses printf to print something as complex a

Re: Code Format Question

2002-01-25 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: "Darryl Schnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > This may not be the place to ask this question so forgive me. I know a > few people who are obsessed with the way their perl code is formatted > and I was wondering what does actual good readable perl code and bad > formatted perl co

Re: Code Format Question

2002-01-25 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
Hi, I prefer using the other form of if/unless etc when possible. And I run under 'use strict;', hence I properly localise my variables. I.e. if ($action eq "Submit") { my ($value, $value) = (1, 2); $testus = 6 if ($testus eq "2"); } > but I think what you wrote can be considered foll

Re: Code Format Question

2002-01-25 Thread Jon Molin
Darryl Schnell wrote: > > This may not be the place to ask this question so forgive me. I know a few people >who are obsessed with the way their perl code is formatted and I was wondering what >does actual good readable perl code and bad formatted perl code look like? > > I usually have my co

Code Format Question

2002-01-25 Thread Darryl Schnell
This may not be the place to ask this question so forgive me. I know a few people who are obsessed with the way their perl code is formatted and I was wondering what does actual good readable perl code and bad formatted perl code look like? I usually have my code looking something like this: