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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Formatting output in columns Post 302346682 by Smiling Dragon on Sunday 23rd of August 2009 08:41:45 PM
Old 08-23-2009
Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
while (<STDIN>) {
        if (/^([^\s]*)\s+([^\s]+ -> .*) (\d+)$/) { $first=$1;$second=$2;$third=$3;write }
}

format STDOUT =
@<<<<<<<<<<<< @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< @##########
$first,$second,$third
.

More info on format
You can tweak the @<<<< bits to get things laid out as you want them.
 

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Test::Output::Tie(3)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				      Test::Output::Tie(3)

NAME
Test::Output::Tie - module used by Test::Output to tie STDERR and STDOUT DESCRIPTION
You are probably more interested in reading Test::Output. This module is used to tie STDOUT and STDERR in Test::Output. Methods TIEHANDLE The constructor for the class. PRINT This method is called each time STDERR or STDOUT are printed to. PRINTF This method is called each time STDERR or STDOUT are printed to with "printf". FILENO BINMODE read This function is used to return all output printed to STDOUT or STDERR. AUTHOR
Currently maintained by brian d foy, "bdfoy@cpan.org". Shawn Sorichetti, "<ssoriche@cpan.org>" SOURCE AVAILABILITY
This module is in Github: http://github.com/briandfoy/test-output/tree/master COPYRIGHT &; LICENSE Currently maintained by brian d foy, "bdfoy@cpan.org". Copyright 2005-2008 Shawn Sorichetti, All Rights Reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This code was taken from Test::Simple's TieOut.pm maintained Michael G Schwern. TieOut.pm was originally written by chromatic. Thanks for the idea and use of the code. perl v5.16.2 2011-04-21 Test::Output::Tie(3)
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