On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Murphy, Ged (Bolton) wrote:
> I'm trying to print a block of code using 'print <<LABEL; but am
> getting an error stating perl can't find the termination label.
> Test code and error as follows:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> print <<TEST;
> this is my tester text
> TEST
>
> Can't find string terminator "TEST" anywhere before EOF at photo.pl
> line 3.
Weird bugs like this were what made me stop using heredocs in most
cases. I find multi-line q{} blocks much more readable:
#!/usr/bin/perl
print qq[
this is my first tester text, with "double-quotes"
];
print q{
this is my second tester text [with 'single-quotes']
};
This way, most text editors tend to be able to pick up the string
terminating characters () [] {} and help make sure that things remain
balanced. I've had better luck this way than I ever did with heredocs.
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Chris Devers
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