formats and write()

From: Dani Pardo (dani_at_enplater.com)
Date: 04/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 12:17:48 +0200 (CEST)
To: beginners@perl.org

  Hi, I've a question involving formats.
  I have a text file that has lines like this:

 __LINE1__
 __LINE2__

 I use s/__LINE(\d+)__/$line{$1}/ to change each of these lines by an
scalar that is stored in a hash, i.e:

 line{1}="CUSTOMER_NAME | PHONE | EMAIL | COUNTRY";

 But, as you may have guessed, I need to format $line{1} with Perl
formats. But write() writes to a filehandle, and I need to store the
result into the scalar variable,

 How can I do it? TIA, 

---
Dani Pardo, dani@enplater.com
Enplater S.A

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