On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 05:24:14PM -0700, Peter Scott wrote:
> At 05:41 PM 8/24/00 -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> >But you don't need that when you can and possibly should just write this:
> >
> > print <<" EOF" =~ /^\s*\| ?(.*\n)/g;
> ^^^^
> Others may be focussing on the problem of stripping off leading white space
> from the here doc contents, but I don't so much care about that because I
> think the Ram recipes are fine; I'm more concerned about being able to
> indent the terminator and not have to count spaces in the <<.
I was sorta going under the assumption that <<< would cause leading and
trailing whitespace to be ignored (not stripped) when looking for the
end-of-here-doc indicator. Because whitespace is ignored, I was then
proposing some new syntax for stripping whatever one likes from the contents
of the here-doc.
Michael
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