in reply to use of string terminator within a subroutine

You cannot indent the terminator.


#WRONG:
  print <<FOO
  FOO

#RIGHT:
  print <<BAR
BAR

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For extra credit, figure out how to use a regular expression to allow for arbitrarily indented terminators.

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