Writes a string using the multiline field format. : Field « Report « Perl






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Writes a string using the multiline field format.

   
#!/usr/local/bin/perl 

@input = <STDIN>; 
$string = join("", @input); 
$~ = "MULTILINE"; 
write; 

format MULTILINE = 
****** contents of the input file: ****** 
@* 
$string 
***************************************** 

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