>>>>> "CD" == Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
CD> On the other hand, the qq{} format can also be formatted for readability,
CD> and it doesn't have the quirky start & end syntax:
CD> my $sth = qq{
CD> DELETE DATA_TM
CD> WHERE EXP_ID = $exp_id
CD> };
CD> The fact that the quote terminator doesn't need to be flush with the left
CD> margin is IMO a big improvement over heredocs.
try that when passing the string to a function call as the first
argument:
foo( qq{
multiline text
here
}, $arg2 ) ;
ewww!
the problem i have with long q/qq strings is finding the closing
delimiter oh so far away. and the above problem is big too.
CD> This isn't Bourne shell, you can use something nicer than heredocs :)
shell and perl here docs share only a common name and syntax but are
very different animals. shell here docs are input to stdin (written and
read from a temp file no less). perl here docs are just quoted strings.
here docs rool!
uri
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