# Does RUBY have the equivalent of PERL's formats?

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 26, 2005, 7:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-ruby-have-the-equivalent-of-perls-formats/48890 "2005-11-26T07:34:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 26, 2005, 7:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-ruby-have-the-equivalent-of-perls-formats/48890/1 "2005-11-26T07:34:30Z")

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Scanning through one of the Ruby books, it appears that the language is  
very similar to PERL.

Is there also the equivalent of the PERL format statement?

Thanks,

Joe McGuckin

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**Author:** ![joe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@joe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joe)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2005, 9:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-ruby-have-the-equivalent-of-perls-formats/48890/2 "2005-11-26T09:03:07Z")

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removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote:

> Is there also the equivalent of the PERL format statement?

[http://formatr.sourceforge.net/](http://formatr.sourceforge.net/)