in reply to Indented HEREDOC?
Since this thread was my top-hit in google (YMMV):
Intended Here Documents were introduced with 5.26.
Indented Here-documents
This adds a new modifier "~" to here-docs that tells the parser that it should look for /^\s*$DELIM\n/ as the closing delimiter.
These syntaxes are all supported:
<<~EOF; <<~\EOF; <<~'EOF'; <<~"EOF"; <<~`EOF`; <<~ 'EOF'; <<~ "EOF"; <<~ `EOF`;The "~" modifier will strip, from each line in the here-doc, the same whitespace that appears before the delimiter.
Newlines will be copied as-is, and lines that don't include the proper beginning whitespace will cause perl to croak.
For example:
if (1) { print <<~EOF; Hello there EOF }prints "Hello there\n" with no leading whitespace.
Probably my favourite improvement since // defined-or.
Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)
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