Thank you for taking the time to reply, and providing all those suggestions.

Ad 1: Noted. I expect that due to this behavior, even if I wanted interpolation, it would still be better ( in terms of style) to write <<"ENDS" to make the fact (that I am aware of this) explicit.

Ad 2&3: Excellent stuff, I was not aware of this possibility (multiple here-docs in the same line). Thank you!

Ad 4: Very interesting. I assume that the danger associated with grep is the fact that it will remove both undef (as intended) and anything that evaluates as non-true (could pose a problem). Is there any other danger involved? Not that it would matter much, as your solution is definitely better, but I'm just curious.

Ad 5: Slurping __DATA__ is exactly what I had in mind when asking about possible split usage.

- Luke

In reply to Re^2: Storing multiple blocks of text in the __DATA__ section by blindluke
in thread Storing multiple blocks of text in the __DATA__ section by blindluke

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