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11. FormatsContents: 11.1 What Is a Format?Perl stands, among other things, for "Practical Extraction and Report Language." It's time to learn about that "...report language" business. Perl provides a simple report-writing template, called a format. A format defines a constant part (the column headers, labels, fixed text, or whatever) and a variable part (the current data you're reporting). The shape of the format is very close to the shape of the output, as with formatted output in COBOL or the Using a format consists of doing three things: Most often, the first step is done once (in the program text so that it gets defined at compile time[1]), and the other two steps are performed repeatedly.
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