PERL Beginners - Formats for invoices.

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Formats for invoices.

Francisco Valladolid

2007-06-28, 9:58 pm

Hi Folks

I'm doing a single perl script to get data from a database (SQLlite), and
want put some data in a format
The output format is record in a simple temporary .txt file and send to
lpr.

the format is for a invoice displaying most important data.

I have the next questions.

1.- How can put lines containing products descriptions ?
2.- Ho can justify or align a variable into format ?

if any people can help me, it will be appreciated.

Regards.

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Francisco Valladolid H.
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Tom Phoenix

2007-06-28, 9:58 pm

On 6/28/07, Francisco Valladolid <ficovh@gmail.com> wrote:

> 1.- How can put lines containing products descriptions ?
> 2.- Ho can justify or align a variable into format ?

Have you seen the perlform manpage?

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlform.html

Hope this helps!

--Tom Phoenix
Stonehenge Perl Training

Chas Owens

2007-06-28, 9:58 pm

On 6/28/07, Tom Phoenix <tom@stonehenge.com> wrote:
> On 6/28/07, Francisco Valladolid <ficovh@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Have you seen the perlform manpage?
>
> http://perldoc.perl.org/perlform.html
snip

Or better yet, the new style forms from Perl 6 backported to Perl 5:

http://search.cpan.org/~dconway/Perl6-Form-0.04/Form.pm

Daniel Kasak

2007-06-28, 9:58 pm

On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 17:24 -0700, Tom Phoenix wrote:

> On 6/28/07, Francisco Valladolid <ficovh@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Have you seen the perlform manpage?
>
> http://perldoc.perl.org/perlform.html
>
> Hope this helps!

Also check out PDF::ReportWriter:
http://entropy.homelinux.org/axis

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