Perl's format mechanism was: https://perldoc.perl.org/perlform https://perldoc.perl.org/perlform These days it's pretty obsolete since if you want to generate

Perl's format mechanism was: https://perldoc.perl.org/perlform https://perldoc.perl.org/perlform These days it's pretty obsolete since if you want to generate a nicely formatted report, you can just generate HTML.