=over =item formline PICTURE,LIST X This is an internal function used by Cs, though you may call it, too. It formats (see L) a list of values according to the contents of PICTURE, placing the output into the format output accumulator, C<$^A> (or C<$ACCUMULATOR> in English). Eventually, when a C is done, the contents of C<$^A> are written to some filehandle. You could also read C<$^A> and then set C<$^A> back to C<"">. Note that a format typically does one C per line of form, but the C function itself doesn't care how many newlines are embedded in the PICTURE. This means that the C<~> and C<~~> tokens will treat the entire PICTURE as a single line. You may therefore need to use multiple formlines to implement a single record format, just like the format compiler. Be careful if you put double quotes around the picture, because an C<@> character may be taken to mean the beginning of an array name. C always returns true. See L for other examples. =back