[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi - Hello,
> I am grinding through =Programming Perl= and came to the section on Here > Documents in Chapter 2 (forgive me, I can't think of the term "Here documents" > without thinking that there must be a dog somewhere named Documents). > > Anyhoo, I tried typing some of the examples at the keyboard. They stick in my > memory better that way. I'm wondering why > > print << x 10; > The camels are coming! > > only seems to work if there is a blank line (e.g. a carriage return) after the > string to be printed. If I don't put that blank line in, I get the error > > Can't find string terminator anywhere before EOF at ./perlcamel.pl line 3 > > (perlcamel.pl is what I called this). > > I'm sure this is a basic question, but the book does not seem anyway to mention > a need for a blank terminating line. That is because your example uses "" for the terminator. print << x 10; The camels are coming! Is exactly the same as: print <<"" x 10; The camels are coming! So a blank line is required to terminate the string. John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
