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Re: The most annoying common way to get a string literal in Perl is...

by beppu (Hermit)
on Jul 05, 2004 at 13:28 UTC ( [id://371872]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to The most annoying common way to get a string literal in Perl is...

I don't get the difference between "here doc" and 'there doc' except that one uses double quotes for the terminator and the other uses single quotes. (Is that the only difference or is there something more subtle to be aware of?)
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Re^2: The most annoying common way to get a string literal in Perl is... (the "t")
by tye (Sage) on Jul 07, 2004 at 01:32 UTC

    Same as the difference between 'single' and "double": one interprets and one doesn't. Though <<'there docs' are unique in Perl for never treating \ as anything other than just \.

    If you thought "there doc" was some official term, then perhaps you didn't notice that most of the names used aren't names you'll find often used (never in the standard docs, for example).

    - tye        

Re^2: The most annoying common way to get a string literal in Perl is...
by hardburn (Abbot) on Jul 06, 2004 at 21:17 UTC

    Both examples are really "here" docs. The poll author was just being silly.

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