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Re: [MacPerl] TerminatorString
At 11:18 -0700 1999.08.24, John W Baxter wrote:
>Another "gotcha" is that the terminating string can't have trailing
>whitespace, either. It has to be *alone* on the line.
Well, it MUST have one bit of trailing whitespace ... a final newline.
i.e., for <<'EOT', perl will look for the exact string "\nEOT\n". Often,
people will end their scripts with "\nEOT" and not get another newline and
it will therefore fail.
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Chris Nandor mailto:pudge@pobox.com http://pudge.net/
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