On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 09:30:44AM -0700, David Wheeler wrote:
>
> That's part of the reason that I almost never use here docs, but the
> qq{} operator, instead. No need for a closing newline.
I have not read the RFC, but I do agree that qq is the way to go for
formatted content. Or, perhaps something like it that in turn
resembles the s{}{} operator?
qf{^\s+}{ Now is the time
for all good men...};
eq
sub qf ($pat,$str) {
$str =~ s/$pat//mg;
return $str;
}
qf('^\s+', qq{ Now is the time
for all good men...});
eq
qq{Now is the time\nfor all good men...};
That fits with the current trend and gives us a very flexible
way to deal with just about any sort of formatting.
You would want to allow the usual m{} options after the second
close, but I think the default behavior should be that of m{}mg
I also think that the above should be abbreviated as:
qf{}{ Now is the time
for all good men...};
since useful defaults are always good.
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