Re: Trubs with HERE docs

If you really want the concluding HELP to indent nicely (and I am no stranger to aesthetic osbessions myself) then this should work:

sub help
    {
    print <<'    HELP';
    The help information goes here!
    HELP
    die();
}
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Of course, your print text will still include the indents.

§ George Sherston

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Re: Re: Trubs with HERE docs by herveus (Prior) on Sep 05, 2001 at 16:56 UTC
Howdy! ...although if you want to interpolate variables into your here document, you need to use " instead of ' around your termination string... In other words: `print <<FOO; woof woof $woof FOO` [download] is equivalent to `print <<"FOO"; woof woof $woof FOO` [download] not `print <<'FOO'; woof woof $woof FOO` [download] I've wrestled that alligator myself (aesthetic obsessions and all). At this point, I've just given up on having the here terminator indented... yours, Michael	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re: Re: Trubs with HERE docs
by herveus (Prior) on Sep 05, 2001 at 16:56 UTC

...although if you want to interpolate variables into your here document, you need to use " instead of ' around your termination string...

In other words:

print <<FOO;
woof woof $woof
FOO
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print <<"FOO";
woof woof $woof
FOO
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print <<'FOO';
woof woof $woof
FOO
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yours,
Michael