Re: Here docs throwing syntax error - can't find string terminator

[shmem]

For here-doc terminators, leading blanks are whitespace is meaningful. Insert the same amount of blanks in your print statement leading delimiter, e.g.

use strict;

my $stuff = join(":", <<"        END" =~ /(.+)/g);
        hi
        there
        this\tis\ta\ttest
        of the best!
        END

or (better) remove the leading blanks from the end token.

update: strikes for better wording, and changed '        END' to "        END". Well...

[ikegami]

You used 'END' where you should have used "END".

print <<END, <<'END', <<"END";
abc\tdef
END
abc\tdef
END
abc\tdef
END

outputs

abc     def
abc\tdef
abc     def

<<END is equivalent to <<"END" and not equivalent to <<'END', so the OP needs <<"        END" rather than <<'        END'.