I feel stupid asking this but, how can I make this here doc work? I have looked at http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq4.html#Why-don't-my-%3c%3cHERE-documents-work%3f 

$author = 'Jesse';
$date = scalar localtime;

$document = <<ENDHEREDOC;

Hello $author.
The time is: $date

ENDHEREDOC

print $document;

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and the result is: 

Can't find string terminator "ENDHEREDOC" anywhere before EOF at test.
+pl line 3.

Press any key to continue . . .

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As an aside, is there a nice and simple way to get the current local date time as YYYY-MM-DD-HH:MM:SS ? All of the examples I was finding were multistep processes involving adding numbers to 1900 and so on. I threw this scalar thing in because i wondered what it would do, but the HEREDOC is holding things up, so I havn't seen the result yet. Thanks,

In reply to [SOLVEDish] Please help me with this Heredoc by Je55eah

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