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duelafn
<p>For your report, [doc://printf] is plenty sufficient (See [doc://sprintf] for the formatting codes). For example:</p>
<code>
use strict;
use warnings;
my $APPROX_LINES_PER_PAGE = 4;
my $sep = ('-'x60)."\n";
my $header = <<HEADER;
============================================================
Name Format of match matches played runs scored page %d
============================================================
HEADER
my $format = "%-18s %-8s %-15s %s\n";
my $cur_pers = '';
my $page = 0;
my $lines = 0;
while (<DATA>){
chomp;
my @elements = split /!/,$_;
if (0 == $page or $lines >= $APPROX_LINES_PER_PAGE) {
print $sep if $page;
print "\n";# or do whatever you want to do between pages
$page++;
$lines = 0;
$cur_pers = '';
printf $header, $page;
}
# check if person change
if ($cur_pers and $cur_pers ne $elements[0]) {
print $sep;
$lines++;
}
$cur_pers = $elements[0];
printf $format, @elements;
$lines++;
}
print $sep;
print "\n";
__DATA__
sachin tendulkar!ODI!434!12000
sachin tendulkar!Test!246!10900
sachin tendulkar!T20!189!5000
sourav ganguly!ODI!334!8000
sourav ganguly!Test!235!5000
sourav ganguly!T20!124!1800
rahul dravid!ODI!387!9000
rahul dravid!Test!212!5980
rahul dravid!T20!43!1345
</code>
<p>I've added some sample pagination - I'm not sure what you had in mind there, but you should be able to extend it to what you wanted.
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<p>Good Day,<br> Dean</p>
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