Hi Tom, What if I wanted to have multiple embedded (and separate) texts embedded in my program. Are you saying that I can have only one text section and that should have keyword DATA. Actually when I wrote example, I assumed that double underscore tell the parser that a text section starts (so used my own name - my_block)
Thanks .. On 2/6/07, Tom Phoenix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2/6/07, Sharan Basappa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Question is how to embed text in a perl program instead of reading it from a > file > or initializing the text in a string variable. Are you looking for here-documents? Look in perlop under Quote and Quote-like Operators to see the different ways of putting text data into your program. > Another question is whether perl will replace the variable defined in > the embedded text with actual values ? Do you mean double-quote interpolation? Here-docs normally interpolate, but you can disable that (akin to single-quoting instead of double-quoting). > while (<MY_BLOCK>) > __MY_BLOCK__ It looks as if you've seen the special DATA filehandle and the __DATA__ marker; but those don't generalize like that. Nice try, though. (If you change those back to DATA in your program, I think it will do what you expected. Consider adding 'use strict' and 'use warnings', though.) Hope this helps! --Tom Phoenix Stonehenge Perl Training
