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PERL is designed to produce simple reports with a format that allows close control over what appears where on the output page. The general syntax is reminiscent of Fortran!
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We need to describe format definitions, write to output formats and data, and a rather peculiar way of associating formats with files
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The syntax is a little cleaner in PERL5 where filehandles are almost true objects with methods. Here specify
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use English; # to specify that both long understandable and short cryptic names are allowed
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use FileHandle; # which allows you to set variables associated with FILEHANDLE by
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method FILEHANDLE EXPR; # to set method=EXPR or alternatively use
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FILEHANDLE->method(EXPR); # where allowed methods are many such as
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open, close, format_name, seek ......
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