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From: markb@agora.uucp (Mark Biggar)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Question regarding variable output formats
Message-ID: <1990Dec14.050237.27244@agora.uucp>
Date: 14 Dec 90 05:02:37 GMT
References: <1990Dec11.221304.2933@tkna.uucp>
Organization: Open Communications Forum
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In article <1990Dec11.221304.2933@tkna.uucp> alan@tkna.tkna.com (Alan Light) writes:
>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]
>.

Perl things its a variable line not a format line. To get what you want warp
the format in an eval like so:

eval <<EOFORMAT
format STDOUT =
$myformat
\$_[0],\$_[1],\$_[2],\$_[3],\$_[4]
.
EOFORMAT

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Perl's maternal uncle
Mark Biggar