# phpman > perldoc > Test2::Formatter::TAP

## NAME
    [Test2::Formatter::TAP](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Test2%3A%3AFormatter%3A%3ATAP/markdown) - Standard TAP formatter

## DESCRIPTION
    This is what takes events and turns them into TAP.

## SYNOPSIS
        use [Test2::Formatter::TAP](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Test2%3A%3AFormatter%3A%3ATAP/markdown);
        my $tap = [Test2::Formatter::TAP](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Test2%3A%3AFormatter%3A%3ATAP/markdown)->new();

        # Switch to utf8
        $tap->encoding('utf8');

        $tap->write($event, $number); # Output an event

## METHODS
    $bool = $tap->no_numbers
    $tap->set_no_numbers($bool)
        Use to turn numbers on and off.

    $arrayref = $tap->handles
    $tap->set_handles(\@handles);
        Can be used to get/set the filehandles. Indexes are identified by the "OUT_STD" and
        "OUT_ERR" constants.

    $encoding = $tap->encoding
    $tap->encoding($encoding)
        Get or set the encoding. By default no encoding is set, the original settings of STDOUT and
        STDERR are used.

        This directly modifies the stored filehandles, it does not create new ones.

    $tap->write($e, $num)
        Write an event to the console.

## SOURCE
    The source code repository for Test2 can be found at <http://github.com/Test-More/test-more/>.

## MAINTAINERS
    Chad Granum <<exodist@cpan.org>>

## AUTHORS
    Chad Granum <<exodist@cpan.org>>
    Kent Fredric <<kentnl@cpan.org>>

## COPYRIGHT
    Copyright 2020 Chad Granum <<exodist@cpan.org>>.

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
    Perl itself.

    See <http://dev.perl.org/licenses/>