Hi,

Wanting to use a heredoc in a one-liner is obviously a bit daft, but here's my problem:

I'm trying to create a hash of text blocks to autogenerate mail texts in multiple languages. For this I have something like:

my %text_blocks;
$text_blocks{en}{prolog} =<<'PROLOG';
You have received this email because something happened.

Please send feedback and suggestions to tldr@nohelp.org.

PROLOG

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This works in a script, but when I run the tests for my module I get:

#     Error:  syntax error at Automailer.pm line 32, near "tldr@nohelp
+"
# Global symbol "@nohelp" requires explicit package name at Automailer
+.pm line 32.

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To see whether the heredoc with an "@" behaves differently in a script and a module, I wanted to try something goofy like:

perl -e 'package test;$text <<'TEST';test@heredoc;\r\nTEST;print "$tex
+t\n"'

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The carriage return and newline obviously don't get interpolated, but I hope you get the idea. Is this at all possible, or is the only way to just write a minimal module?

Thanks,

loris

In reply to Heredoc in one-liner? by loris

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