Re: [MacPerl] Here-Document problem

[bigiain@mightymedia.com.au (Iain Chalmers)]

>I have been having some difficulty with the Perl "here-document"
>operator in MacPerl.  The following script works fine on my UNIX box:
>
>print(<<"MY_EOF");
>this is a test
>and so is this
>and so is that...
>MY_EOF
>
>But fails with the following warning on my Mac:
>
># Can't find string terminator "MY_EOF" anwhere before EOF.

try:

print <<MY_EOF;
this is a test
and so is this
and so is that...
MY_EOF

this works for me under macperl 4 and 5, and perl 4 and 5 on BSD Unix

i think your version would probably work if you used
"MY_EOF"
as the terminator (with the double quotes)

cheers

iain



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