in reply to dumb question on multiline text

You're probably missing a newline on the last line (the one containing END_of_Multiline_Text).

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Re^2: dumb question on multiline text
by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Mar 02, 2010 at 22:02 UTC

    Quoth <<EOF in perlop:

    If the terminating identifier is on the last line of the program, you must be sure there is a newline after it ...
    ... then mentions the error message.

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