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How do i get EOF to work?

by dswimboy (Initiate)
on Mar 28, 2002 at 16:15 UTC ( #155019=categorized question: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??
Contributed by dswimboy on Mar 28, 2002 at 16:15 UTC
Q&A  > input and output


Description:

i have the following script:
     #!/usr/local/bin/perl
     #

     print <<END;

     Content-Type: text/html\n\n
     <html>
     <body bgcolor="#000000" text="#ffffff">
     <h2>Results</h2>

     END

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and i come up with the follwoing error: 
     Can't find string terminator "END" anywhere before EOF at ./eof.p
+l line 4.

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can someone please tell me what is up? i have tried to replace END with EOF as well, same error

Answer: How do i get EOF to work?
contributed by particle

make sure there are no trailing spaces on the line with 'END', and that there is a newline after END. consult node 90272, Here, doccy doccy. nice doccy. heredoc, treat. for more info.

Answer: How do i get EOF to work?
contributed by vxp 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
my $file = "/etc/passwd";
open(PASSWD, $file) or die "Couldn't open $file: $!\n";
unless(eof(PASSWD))
{
 print $_;
}

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Hope this helps.

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