Re^2: Storing multiple blocks of text in the __DATA__ section

[blindluke]

Thanks for the reply and your time, but this solution just moves the variable assignments from within the code to the DATA section at the end of it.

What would be the use of such a thing? My point was never moving the text to a specific place in my code, and placing it in __DATA__ was never an end unto itself.

The point is making the code easier to read by putting the text descriptions as far away from the code syntax as possible. That way, someone can open the file, ignore all the Perl code, and edit the descriptions as any text document.