Howdy Fellow Monks,

I recently attempted to include a heredoc within the eval'd rhs of a regex. No matter what I attempted, perl died with the following error:

Can't find string terminator "END_TEXT" anywhere before EOF

I've reduced this code to the following example:

use strict; use warnings; my $data = "line1\nfoobar\nline3\n"; $data =~ s{(foo)(bar)}{ my $one = $1; my $two = $2; $one .= <<'END_TEXT'; Insert 1 Insert 2 END_TEXT $one.$two; }e; print $data;

Obviously, one can "fix" the issue by using an ordinary string instead, but I would like y'alls advice concerning this.

Super searching revealed only one thread connected to both heredoc's and regex, but it was unrelated.

Thanks

Update: Anon monk pointed out that it does work when outside of the RHS of the regex:

$data =~ s{(foo)(bar)}{ my $one = $1; my $two = $2; $one .= <<'END_TEXT'; $one.$two; }e; Insert 1 Insert 2 END_TEXT

In reply to Can't include a HEREDOC within RHS of a Regex by wind

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