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2015-05-06, 21:04:50
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Idiom #48 Multi-line string litteral
Assign to variable s a string litteral consisting in several lines of text
Idiom #48 Multi-line string litteral
Assign to variable s a string litteral consisting in several lines of text
Code
$s = "Perl normally allows
strings to contain newlines.";
$s =<<EOSTR;
However, it also provides the "here doc" (lifted from various UNIX shells).
A 'here doc' is the <<tag construct. Perl continues to treat
all the text found as part of the string until there's a line containing
the EOSTR tag at the beginning
EOSTR