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$report->width()	Report's width

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$report->height()	Report's height

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$report->islastbreak()	Returns true if it's the last processing break (using the cascade breaks approach)

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$report->iPB()	Returns true if the reporter is processing breaks (useful when you want or not to do something while processing breaks)

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$report->newpage([TIMES])	indicates that a new page is required. TIMES is the number of form feeds to do. By default is 1

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Reporter.pm  view on Meta::CPAN

 ...
 $sheet->Print("the sum is $sum");
 $sum = 0; #reset $sum
 ...


As many breaks as necessary can be defined, but only one break per field is allowed.

=item CASCADE BREAKS

When defining more that one Break, they are handled in cascade. A change in a break field will cause all the break functions defined for fields with a lower value to be called. For example

assume the following data

 1 2 3 1 1
 1 2 3 1 2
 1 2 4 2 3
 1 3 4 2 4

and the following break hash