Then I'd rewrite that as follows 
on do_stuff_with(an_item)
  do shell script "perl -e " & (quoted form of "
    use strict;
    use warnings;
    use Getopt::Long;
    
    # get Template from the command line
    my $TEMPLATE;
    GetOptions("template=%s",\$TEMPLATE);

    # and now process
    while (<>) {
      # do something with the line and the 
      # TEMPLATE
    }
") & " " & (quoted form of "--template=" & some_user_changeable_config
+_stuff) & " "
 & (quoted form of POSIX path of an_item)
end do_stuff_with

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yay, first AppleScript hacking I did did do! ;-)

Dunno whether I got everything right, but the idea is to stuff into a command line argument that which you wanted to stuff into the DATA section.

--shmem 

_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}

In reply to Re^3: 'perl -e' and '__DATA__' What's wrong? by shmem
in thread 'perl -e' and '__DATA__' What's wrong? by Skeeve

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