in reply to Please explain: print <<"END_USAGE";

Because it's a here-doc which has nothing to do with Getopt::Long specifically. Search for "<<EOF" in perlop in the section on quote-like operators, but basically it means create a string from everything following this line up to the next line beginning with the terminator string given after the "<<".

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Re^2: Please explain: print <<"END_USAGE";
by richz (Beadle) on Feb 15, 2008 at 18:17 UTC
    Thanks, it was hard finding help searching for print <<, but now I know where to look!
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      Cause it has nothing to do with print. 
      my ($var1, $var2) = (<<'EOI', <<'EOI');
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EOI
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EOI

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