Subject: ANNOUNCE: Extensible Report Generator 1.13
From: [email-masked] (Phoenixl)
Date: 16 Aug 1998 19:51:32 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.misc

The Extensible Report Generator (ERG) is a set of perl object modules
that lets a user quickly develop object classes which can produce
very configurable reports with a minimal amount of development
effort.  The report generator class can easily be extended to produce
summary information besides just formatting data. The ERG can be
used for such things as "quick and dirty" types of reports, prototyping
of reports, producing information tables for HTML files, exploring
"what if" kinds of questions.

The ERG 1.13 is available in CPAN/authors/id/P/PH/PHOENIXL:

    extensible_report_generator_1.13.zip
    extensible_report_generator_1.13.readme

Here's an example of a very simple report produced by the report
generators, including the field headings and the summary lines.

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Directory                       Modify time           Access

docs                            05/27/98 19:03:06     05/27/98
freezer                         05/27/98 14:33:34     05/27/98

File                     Size   Modify time           Access

dirhelp.vtxt            1,383   05/27/98 09:26:42     06/03/98
demo.pl                 2,468   06/03/98 10:50:18     06/03/98
file_reporter.pm        6,366   06/03/98 10:38:58     06/03/98
line_formatter.pm      11,680   06/03/98 10:17:04     06/03/98
old_test.pl             3,258   05/27/98 19:00:06     06/03/98
page_manager.pm         9,719   06/03/98 10:33:20     06/03/98
report_generator.pm    25,540   06/03/98 10:16:42     06/03/98
report_summary.pm       6,821   06/03/98 10:20:04     06/03/98
zzz                       513   05/27/98 10:31:02     06/03/98

Total                  67,748

Average                 7,528