>But Tom, that preserves all the white space both before and after the '!'!
>Michael's goal is to eliminate the leading white space, although he didn<SNIP>
>'!' bit.  So I'm not sure how you'd have written that if you'd have done<SNIP>
>specification.

Yeah, ok.  I still think

    ##### Your stuff that you write
    #####    goes nicely right here
    ##### If you want it to print
    #####    sans mungeing to fear

is the nicest way to heredoc, where "#####" is some distinctive string.

--tom

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