There's more than one way to do things | |
PerlMonks |
Report Formattingby octopusgrabbus (Acolyte) |
on Aug 05, 2013 at 15:58 UTC ( [id://1047925]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
octopusgrabbus has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
I am migrating several Informix 4GL programs to Perl. Perl has a rich library of packages for everything, and I am wondering which packages to look at that would allow me to format data, so that output columns can be fixed?
I am only interested in producing ascii output, and to keep the report values neat. Imagine if you had to read account numbers, names, addresses, water meter data, and so on, you might want output that was neatly ordered. That is what I am after. I am also going to produce .csv output, but this question is about a report that can be printed easily and output to PDF. I am not concerned about the grouping/sorting that Informix provides, because Perl's DBI provides me a very strong workaround. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
Back to
Seekers of Perl Wisdom
|
|