As you suggest, this quoting semantic is really just a design decision.

If you need to quote arbitrary data in a here-doc, you might try something like the following: 

my $data = get_some_arbitrary_data();

$data =~ s/^( *)$/ $1/gm;

$eval = "<<'';\n$data\n\n";

$result = eval $eval;
$result =~ s/^ //;

print $result;

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If you specify an empty terminator, then the here-doc ends at the next empty line. Just make sure there are no empty lines in the arbitrary data; perhaps by prepending a space to every empty line. I added a space to every line consisting only of spaces, so I could convert the data back after the eval.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: DOS directory naming in PERL? by chipmunk
in thread DOS directory naming in PERL? by phathead22

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