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> print indent(<<"");

The empty line marker is dangerous, at least if your editor doesn't highlight trailing white-space (mine does)

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Re^3: Here documents in blocks
by tybalt89 (Monsignor) on Dec 19, 2020 at 20:39 UTC

    It's just a tradeoff between danger and beauty :)

    Personally I put the HERE-IS block at the left hand edge, and skip the whole "indent" thing.
    (A what (indent) you see, is what you get.)

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      > Personally I put the HERE-IS block at the left hand edge, and skip the whole "indent" thing. (A what (indent) you see, is what you get.)

      me too, mostly at the end of a sub.

      If I need a template, then it'll normally also merit a sub.

      sub html_admin {
    my($user_number)=@_;

    my $HTML_restricted = "";
    $HTML_restricted = <<"__HTML__" if $user_number == 20;
    <tr>
         <td class="someClass">Restricted</td>
    </tr>
__HTML__

    return << "__HTML__";
<table>
     <tr>
          <td class="someclass" style="text-align:center">Some Content
+</td>
     </tr>
     $HTML_restricted
</table>
__HTML__

}

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      Cheers Rolf
      (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
      Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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        Personally I put the HERE-IS block at the left hand edge, and skip the whole "indent" thing. (A what (indent) you see, is what you get.)

        me too, mostly at the end of a sub.

        I think that LanX and tybalt89 have answered much of my question...is there an accepted best practice?
        Sounds like it's to just ignore the whole indent problem.

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