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Definitely here-documents and especially __END__. It screws up the whole indenting, and makes me loose my oversight and position in the code. They'd be great if the indenting problem could be fixed somehow, though...
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Re^2: The most annoying common way to get a string literal in Perl is...
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 02, 2004 at 22:10 UTC
    It can. Did you try:
    if($anything){
  print <<"  Ende" # =~s/  \n/\n/g #could be appended
    Text
  Ende
}

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      Sorry, sleep deprivation. The regex must be m"    (.*?)$"msg;.
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        Hey, thanks, I didn't know you could do such a direct regex on a here-document. Always something new to learn...
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