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im sorry, my script is so long, the error is from another place, the tags do work alone. Thanks for your help, and again i apoligize.
at the end of my script was something like...
sub help {

//the rest of the code was gone, because i had copied and pasted to th
+e top of the script.

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UPDATE: It doesnt work for me (EOF tags)

sub help() {
print <<"EOF";

Possible Starting Arguments for ldapadmin:
blah blah




EOF
}

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I get this error:
dark314@chavez:~/boxes/scripts/csl-ldap-01$ ./ldapadmin -help
Missing right curly or square bracket at ./ldapadmin line 896, at end of line
syntax error at ./ldapadmin line 896, at EOF
Execution of ./ldapadmin aborted due to compilation errors. sorry if this seems very easy, but its bugging me because I know there should be some better way of doing it.
ok, so heres the deal: I have a textfile, with tabstops in it, its a helpfile for a script of mine which is written in, you guessed it, perl. Originally I had the perl script make a system call to cat <name of file> but given the small size of the script, i'd rather it inside the script, perhaps in a subroutine called help(), i was thinking of adding something like this: 

print "



//paste help text here which was copied


";

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but i know this is a bad approach and im sure it doesn't work.

In reply to inserting a formatted text file into a perl script. by dark314

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