On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 21:06:30 -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
1. Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in here string terminators.
All of these should work:
EOL
EOL
EOL # this is the end of the here doc
I don't think a special syntax is needed just for this. Make
this the
On Fri 25 Aug, Nathan Wiger wrote:
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
At 06:14 PM 8/24/00 -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Okay, devil's advocate.
Paragraphs.
sub legal {
print FOO
Attention criminal slacker, we have yet
to receive payment for our legal services.
Love and kisses
FOO
}
I'm
I'm coming into this a bit late, so forgive me if this is impossible or
already dismissed, but what about
print qr/\s*FOO\s*/
Attention, dropsied weasel, we are
launching our team of legal beagles
straight for your scrofulous crotch.
At 04:30 PM 8/24/00 -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:
I'm coming into this a bit late, so forgive me if this is impossible or
already dismissed, but what about
print qr/\s*FOO\s*/
Attention, dropsied weasel, we are
launching our team of legal beagles
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;
| Attention criminal slacker, we have yet
| to receive payment for our legal
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 05:41:00PM -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:
But you don't need that when you can and possibly should just write this:
print "EOF" =~ /^\s*\| ?(.*\n)/g;
| Attention criminal slacker, we have yet
| to receive payment for our legal services.
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
Unfortunately the quoting on the terminator following decides the type
of interpolation; we're missing a way of indicating how to recognize the
terminator other than an exact match. If we say that /\s*FOO\s*/ means
terminate on a line matching that pattern, then how can we also say whether
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
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 05:26:36PM -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:
I thought this problem would've been neatly solved by my proposed:
print "FOO" =~ s/^ {8}//;
Attention criminal slacker, we have yet
to receive payment for our legal services.
Love
Basically, it's shorthand for the current syntax:
$message = "EOF" =~ s/^\s*\| ?//g;
| Attention criminal slacker, we have yet
| to receive payment for our legal services.
|
| Love and kisses
|
EOF
print $message;
But any
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 03:05:23PM -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
=head1 ABSTRACT
With a here doc print ZZZ; the ZZZ has to be at the start of a line and
the text of the here doc, is processed verbatum. This results in Here Docs
that either stick out in the code, or result in unwanted
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 03:05:23PM -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
With a here doc print ZZZ; the ZZZ has to be at the start of a line and
the text of the here doc, is processed verbatum. This results in Here Docs
that either stick out in the code, or result in unwanted leading whitespace.
"MF" == Michael Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
MF So what's insufficient about:
MF print "EOF";
MF Stuff
MF More stuff
MF Even more stuff
MF EOF
Counting spaces, why make the programer work. Are those tabs or spaces?
And it doesn't strip the leading
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