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From: alan@tkna.tkna.com (Alan Light)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Question regarding variable output formats
Message-ID: <1990Dec11.221304.2933@tkna.uucp>
Date: 11 Dec 90 22:13:04 GMT
Sender: alan@tkna.uucp (Alan Light)
Organization: Telekurs (North America) Inc.
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I can't seem to use a variable to specify an output format picture.

Consider the following code:

$myformat = '@<<<<<<<@<<<<<<<<<<<<@<<<<<<<<<<<<@<<<<<<<<<<<@<<<<<<<<<<';

format STDOUT = 
$myformat
$_[0],$_[1],$_[2],$_[3],$_[4]
.

It seems that the string "$myformat" is included verbatim in the output
picture.

I'm running perl 3.0 PL 12

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Alan Light    uunet!tkna!alan
Telekurs (North America), Inc.
New York, NY.