Well, you _can _ do this
$var=<<"END ";
This is my variable's
multiline text,
complete tith tabs\t\t and extra newline\n\n, etc....
END
^^^^
four spaces in the opening and closing quote. I usually use qq{ }
depending on how much I care about whitespace formatting. If I was
writing Perl code to generate Python code, I'd be in trouble (in more
than one way).
Paul wrote:
> As someone mentioned on the board (ever so briefly), here-documents
> like this one require that your "sentinel" string have no leading
> whitespace.
>
> e.i., you may say
> $var=<<END;
> This is my variable's
> multiline text,
> complete tith tabs\t\t and extra newline\n\n, etc....
> END
>
> but you *can't* say
> $var=<<END;
> blah
> END
>
> because here, END has space in front of it.
> In several shells you can put tabs in front of it if you say
> print<<-END; # the dash says "let me use a leading tab"
> blah
> <tab here>END
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