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I can't find a reference to __DATA__ in the docs. I know its there somehere. Maybe someone else will post one.

Essentially, you can use <DATA> as a file handle that you don't need to open to access anything after the __DATA__ marker at the end of your source file, __END__ works too, but has caveats when used with modules I was informed recently.

It's very useful for testing and demo purposes. You can even have multiple embedded and even writable files using Damian Conway's Inline::Files, I don't think they would be useful for your purposes here though.

..and remember there are a lot of things monks are supposed to be but lazy is not one of them

Examine what is said, not who speaks.

1) When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2) The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible
3) Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke.

In reply to Re: care to explain __DATA__? by BrowserUk
in thread best way to change xml record using XML::Simple? by waxmop

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