Re: How do I print formatted text to a scalar instead of a filehandle?

[GrandFather]

Writing to a scalar is a pretty good way to do it:

use strict;
use warnings;

my %hash = (one => 1, two => 2, three => 3);

# create a format picture for use with formline
format OUTPUT =
@<<<<<<<<< @##
$_, $hash{$_}
.

my $str;

open OUTPUT, '>', \$str;
write OUTPUT foreach sort keys %hash;
close OUTPUT;

print $str;