You probably have it like:

while () {
    print <<END;
        my text
    END
}
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when, as you are recognizing, needs to be

while () {
    print <<END;
        my text
END
}
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While you can modify the here document starting point, such as

    print <<    END;
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where that space is a tab character, this would look worse.

I've run into the same problem, and for things like sql statements, I find it better to use q() and friends, such as:

$sth=$dbi->prepare( q/
     SELECT * FROM my_table WHERE AVERAGE( cost ) < ?
     /) or die DBI->errstr;
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The indents in this code will rarely affect SQL, and probably only a few select other cases will it be a problem.

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