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Have you tried setting $- (number of lines left on the current page) to a suitably large number after each write instead?

Update Since there seems to be some question as to whether my suggestion would work, I did the following test:

use strict;
use warnings;

$= = 5;

for(1..15) {
  write;
  #$- = 999;
}

format STDOUT =
@### @###### @###
$_, $_**2, $-
.
format STDOUT_TOP =
---TOP---
.
__END__
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If I run the above, I get the following at the console:

---TOP---
   1       1    0
   2       4    3
   3       9    2
   4      16    1
&#9792;---TOP---
   5      25    0
   6      36    3
   7      49    2
   8      64    1
&#9792;---TOP---
   9      81    0
  10     100    3
  11     121    2
  12     144    1
&#9792;---TOP---
  13     169    0
  14     196    3
  15     225    2
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and if I uncomment the line setting $- to 999, I get:

---TOP---
   1       1    0
   2       4  999
   3       9  999
   4      16  999
   5      25  999
   6      36  999
   7      49  999
   8      64  999
   9      81  999
  10     100  999
  11     121  999
  12     144  999
  13     169  999
  14     196  999
  15     225  999
[download]

So I believe resetting $- should work. It is also noted in perlfunc under write that setting $- to zero will force a page break, which follows the same pattern.

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I'd like to be able to assign to an luser

In reply to Re: Supressing page breaks in forms by Albannach
in thread Supressing page breaks in format/write output by yaconsult

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