Sending Format's output to a variable

[Jiggerman]

Can any of you fine folks out there think of a way to send the output of a "format" section to a variable, rather than out to a filehandle. I want to re-use it in a Tk Entry box you see.

Thanks for all or any help.

 

[PaulTEG]

Are you talking of sprintf statements?

 

[Jiggerman]

Well, in a way yes it is, but I was hopeing to be able to use all of Format's useful setup arguments. I assumed it would be pretty simple to use a variable instead of a Filehandle, or a filehandle pointing at a variable, I didn't know how to do this, but thought it would be a pretty simple problem to solve.

I suppose I could use sprintf, but I'm sure format would be just as simple.

 

[PaulTEG]

I'm just after glancing at "Programming Perl" (Riley), and it says that its just another symbol in the symbol table, that defaults to STDOUT, but you could open a pipe to another handle and work it that way. and i quote "Not very convenient, but doable"

I'm just after looking at it for the first time.

What you're talking about seems to have been on the TO-DO-LIST for Perl 5 (subversion unknown), but it may have been addressed in later versions

HTH
Paul

 

[Jiggerman]

Thanks Very much Paul,

I think the long and very memory, and processor in-efficient way of doing it, would be to use format out to a file, then read in the file again, It's a "loopy" way of doing it, but it's probably what I will use.

Thanks again for your help