Sometimes it just looks better to me to do this:
print "This is my first line.\n";
print "And this is my second.\n";
print "And this is my third.\n";
It may not be the quickest or the shortest, but it's easy to read.
-----Original Message-----
From: drieux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 1:44 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Setting a Variable to String with \n?
On Wednesday, April 24, 2002, at 01:18 , Michael Norris wrote:
[..]
> But what if I'm doing an elsif and my code is indented such as:
> elsif ($string == 1) {
> $string = This is the text I want
> But I also want this text on next line.
>
> Is there a way to ignore the white space before the "But I also want this
> text on the next line?" Otherwise I would have to do the following:
cf perodoc perlfaq4 - on or about page 17 or so....
in the perldoc perldata you will find:
($quote = <<'FINIS') =~ s/^\s+//gm;
The Road goes ever on and on,
down from the door where it began.
FINIS
but be forewarned that 'FINIS' has to start in Column Zero; eg:
sub SetTheQuote {
my ( $quote); # = @_;
($quote = <<'FINIS') =~ s/^\s+//gm;
The Road goes ever on and on,
down from the door where it began.
FINIS
$quote ;
} # end of SetTheQuote
unless you clean up your ' FINIS'
FINIS
in short - tab inside the ' ' or better yet - have the
spaces stuffed there....
# unlike in /bin/sh where one could
VAR<<-HEREIS
stuff
stuf
HEREIS
tabbed over and all
from the man sh
"If the operator is ``<<-'' instead of
``<<'', then leading tabs in the here-doc-text are
stripped."
ciao
drieux
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