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From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject: Re: multi-line Strings
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 14:07:25 +0100
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On 16.12.2012 09:56, BGB wrote:
> On 12/15/2012 5:34 PM, Robert Klemme wrote:
>> On 15.12.2012 18:22, Peter J. Holzer wrote:

>>> But for all various string syntaxes that Perl supports, it's still
>>> missing a sane multiline string syntax.
>>
>> Does it?
>>
>> $ perl x.pl
>> a line
>> another line
>> yet another line
>> one more line
>> $ cat x.pl
>>
>> $str=<<MULTI;
>> a line
>> another line
>> yet another line
>> one more line
>> MULTI
>>
>> print($str);
>>
>
> I had before imagined the possibility of something like:
> #<<identifier; ... identifier
>
> IOW:
> str = #<<EOF;
> line 1
> line 2
> line 3
> EOF;
>
> but, never really added this, as heredoc syntax is kind of ugly IMO...

I don't really see the difference - or the improvement.  You just added 
a hash and a semi colon.

Cheers

	robert





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