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From:
Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
Date:
February 1, 2002 10:19
Subject:
Re: Formats
Message ID:
Pine.GSO.4.21.0202011318390.27903-100000@crusoe.crusoe.net
On Feb 1, ABhagwandin@STSSystems.com said:
>Why does the following not work for me?
>
>format NAME =
>TEST
>----
>@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>$test
>..
>
>$test = "asdfjkl;";
>
>select(NAME);
>write();
That tries writing to the filehandle NAME, too. Instead of select(NAME),
do:
$~ = "NAME";
That will set STDOUT's default format name to "NAME".
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Jeff "japhy" Pinyan japhy@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/
RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/
** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 **
<stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course.
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