Re: Here document construct problem

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As I pointed out in the CB both the here docs and qq or q work for me; so the error is either somewhere else or you forgot to end a HERE doc somewhere. my test case:

$blah = "something";
#$blah printed as $blah
print q(
      <blahtag>blah blah $blah</blahtag>
      <blahtag>blah blah $blah</blahtag>
);
      #&printOwner($data{owner1});
      #&printOwner($data{owner2});
      #&printOwner($data{owner3});

#$blah printed as $blah's value (using q)
print q(
      <blahtag>blah blah ) . $blah . q(</blahtag>
      <blahtag>blah blah ) . $blah . q(</blahtag>
);

      #&printOwner($data{owner1});
      #&printOwner($data{owner2});
      #&printOwner($data{owner3});

#$blah printed as $blah's value (using qq)
print qq(
      <blahtag>blah blah $blah</blahtag>
      <blahtag>blah blah $blah</blahtag>
);
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Judging by the amount of HTML your printing using HERE docs in your code, you might want to look at HTML::Template. Which would allow you to seperate your HTML and perl code (which is much easier to debug and update).

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Re^2: Here document construct problem by hok_si_la (Curate) on Feb 17, 2005 at 20:53 UTC
I have actually already begun the tedius process of replacing the here document constructs with q() in all of my scripts. I was just wondering why in this particular script I was running into probs. With regard to your testing i can narrow the entire script down to just that block I showed before and the basic HTML tags and I still get warnings. I looked at the HTML::Template, and would surely use it if I could. I only have two weeks left on the project, and I need to get all 70 + scripts updated to DBI and CGI::simple first. I am currently in the process of adding "use strict" and "use warnings" to every script which is how I ran into this problem in the first place. Thanks for all your time, hok_si_la	[reply]

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Re^2: Here document construct problem
by hok_si_la (Curate) on Feb 17, 2005 at 20:53 UTC

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