Hawkes, Mick I wrote:
Went to the exegesis7 link and that format will do though I do have some 
questions about it
(I am a newbie to Perl after all :-))

from the site

So, whereas in Perl 5 we might write:

    # Perl 5 code...

    our ($name, $age, $ID, $comments);

format STDOUT
=================================== | NAME | AGE | ID NUMBER |
|----------+------------+-----------|
| @<<<<<<< | @||||||||| | @>>>>>>>> |
$name, $age, $ID,
|===================================|
| COMMENTS |
|-----------------------------------|
| ^<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< |~~
$comments,
===================================
.


    write STDOUT;

how do I convert this from writing to STOUT to writing to a string. Is it just format $mystring ?

up until now I have only been using \t and \n. I have no clue what Q<|^ and ~ do!

perldoc perlform


John -- use Perl; program fulfillment

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