Fellow monks,

I'm having an issue with here docs, and I'm sure it's something simple that I'm overlooking but it's annoying me. Given this code snippet from Merlyn's website(Jan 97 column): 

use strict;

my $stuff = join(":", <<END =~ /(.+)/g);
        hi
        there
        this\tis\ta\ttest
        of the best!
        END

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and this code example from CGI::AJAX 

sub Show_HTML {
    my $html = <<EOHTML;
    <HTML>
    <BODY>
      Enter something: 
        <input type="text" name="val1" id="val1"
         onkeyup="exported_func( ['val1'], ['resultdiv'] );">
      <br>
      <div id="resultdiv"></div>
    </BODY>
    </HTML>
  EOHTML

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They're both failing with the error: Can't find string terminator anywhere before EOF, but obviously both string terminators are there.

Perl version:v5.8.8 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread (with 33 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

Am I just missing something obvious here?

Thanks in advance!

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In reply to Here docs throwing syntax error - can't find string terminator by Popcorn Dave

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