Many of the developers @my_work use the 'clever':
    ....
    my $here_doc = '....END';
    stuff
    here
....END

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Along with clever trim leading whitespace code...which I despise...so I use heredocs, but ONLY on the left margin. I've become fond of syntax highlighting, so any incorrect trailing marker is (usually) obvious. I've also taken to using some vim heredoc highlighting tips and always use the terminators SQL, XML, and HTML when appropriate.

If I have a heredoc in a sub, I move it out of the sub, e.g.

my $sql = <<SQL;
SELECT *
FROM TABLE
SQL

sub do_stuff {
  ...
  $dbh->execute($sql);
}

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If the $sql needs to be dynamic, I'll probably change it to a sprintf template, and call sprintf in the sub.

In reply to Re^7: Quote and Quote-like Operators (heredocs break) by runrig
in thread Quote and Quote-like Operators by Xiong

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