Re: The most annoying common way to get a string literal in Perl is...

Definitely here-documents and especially __END__. It screws up the whole indenting, and makes me loose my oversight and position in the code. They'd be great if the indenting problem could be fixed somehow, though...

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Re^2: The most annoying common way to get a string literal in Perl is... by Anonymous Monk on Jul 02, 2004 at 22:10 UTC
It can. Did you try: `if($anything){ print <<" Ende" # =~s/ \n/\n/g #could be appended Text Ende }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Thinko! by Anonymous Monk on Jul 03, 2004 at 07:57 UTC
Sorry, sleep deprivation. The regex must be `m" (.*?)$"msg;`.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Thinko! by december (Pilgrim) on Jul 04, 2004 at 22:36 UTC
Hey, thanks, I didn't know you could do such a direct regex on a here-document. Always something new to learn...	[reply]


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