On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 16:18, Michael Norris wrote: > Ok, > > But what if I'm doing an elsif and my code is indented such as: > elsif ($string == 1) { > $string = This is the text I want > But I also want this text on next line. > > Is there a way to ignore the white space before the "But I also want this text on >the next line?" Otherwise I would have to do the following: > > elsif ($string == 1) { > $string = > This is the text I want. > But I also want this text on the next line. > > > This may be trivial, but I'm just trying to make my code look some what neat. > > Thanks for the help. > <snip />
The here string (<<END stuff END) will correctly handle indents in Perl 6 (or so it is said), but Perl 5 does not do the Right Thing(tm). For cases like this I tend to write code that looks like this: elsif ($string == 1) { $string = "this is the first line\n" . "this is the second line\n" . "etc.\n"; } -- Today is Prickle-Prickle the 41st day of Discord in the YOLD 3168 P'tang! Missile Address: 33:48:3.521N 84:23:34.786W -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]