appending xml to string

shreya has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: appending xml to string by philcrow (Priest) on Nov 10, 2006 at 16:28 UTC
You should put explicit quotes around the heredoc terminator: `$mystring .= <<'START'; ... START` [download] If you need to interpolate in the heredoc, use double quotes. Phil	[reply] [d/l]
Re: appending xml to string by davorg (Chancellor) on Nov 10, 2006 at 16:40 UTC
That won't cause your code to fail. What you are seeing is just a deprecation warning. Everything still works. It's just warning you that at some point in the future a feature that you are using is likely to be removed. If you see a warning or an error that you don't understand then you can look it up in perldiag to get more details. In this case, it says: Use of bare << to mean <<"" is deprecated (D deprecated) You are now encouraged to use the explicitly quoted form if you wish to use an empty line as the terminator of the here-document. -- <http://dave.org.uk> "The first rule of Perl club is you do not talk about Perl club." -- Chip Salzenberg	[reply]
Re^2: appending xml to string by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 10, 2006 at 16:42 UTC
Which means `<<"START" ok (interpolates) <<'START' ok (doesn't interpolate) <<START Same as <<"START" << "START" Same as <<"START" << 'START' Same as <<'START' << START bad` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: appending xml to string by graff (Chancellor) on Nov 11, 2006 at 14:39 UTC
You also need to be careful about your use of the semi-colon: `$mystring .= << "START"; # semi-colon needed here <XML version="" attribute2="" ...blah START # Don't put a semi-colon on that line (or a comment or anything else).` [download] The end of the here-doc must be a line that contains exactly and only the string that you gave at the start, excluding the quotes (if any) and the semi-colon.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: appending xml to string by shreya (Novice) on Nov 17, 2006 at 22:21 UTC
Thanks graff..that helped	[reply]