I have this cgi that I build a sql statement in, pass to dbi and do stuff with the results. I want to make the code readable but the following complains if I indent the ending tag. 

      $sql = <<EOSQL;
        update employee set
        fname = '$NS::fname',
        lname = '$NS::lname',
        team  = '$NS::team'
EOSQL  >- script complains if this is indented.

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Why does EOSQL have to be in column 0 for the above assignment to work? Why can't it just read till it sees EOSQL?

TIA
Travis

2001-03-03 Edit by Corion : Changed PRE to CODE tags, fixed heredoc syntax.

In reply to Why does $sql = &lt;&lt;EOSQL; require EOSQL to be in column 0? by Anonymous Monk

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