Ok. I have been learning perl from a bit of an old book (5.6) but the current 5.8 info from the web shows the same thing for a basic here-document, so why doesn't this work?

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
print<<EOF;
blah blah blah. this is a here-document
EOF

I keep getting "Can't find string terminator "EOF" anywhere before EOF at ./eof.plx line 2.
"

Scruff

Try this one ...



Cheers,
Tink

Same error Tink. Check it out:

scruff@dabasement:~/documents/perl-stuff$ eof.plx
Can't find string terminator "EOF" anywhere before EOF at ./eof.plx line 2.
scruff@dabasement:~/documents/perl-stuff$ cat eof.plx
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
print<<"EOF";
blah blah blah. this is a here-document
EOF

I actually saw a few different examples for syntax of here-document while searching Google and tried them all to no avail.

What could be the problem here?

What's your version of perl, and what does
plx stand for?

[edit]
/me remembers running into a few problems with 5.8.1, is back on 5.6.1
[/edit]


Cheers,
Tink

v 5.8.2
I am not entirely sure what .plx stands for. I think I remember reading at the beginning of the book that .plx was perl extention. It's simply how the examples are named in the book and all my other scripts execute fine with .plx.

Just for kicks I tried saving it simply as eof and executing it that way, but I still receive that damned error

This is back in chap 1 even. I have made it through chap 3 with variables, interpolation, operators etc and never have any errors unless I make a stupid typo. I had taken a break though and wanted to refresh my memory so I went back through the chaps. I had this same problem the first time around too, but dismissed it as something to do with 5.6 vs 5.8. This time I wanted to Google out the solution but nothing seems to work!

Thanks Tink.

Ummm ... that code snippet is all you're
running there?
Try to add a empty new line after
the final EOF :} but no spaces around it

If this solves your problem google is your
friend, once again, because that's where
I got it from just then :)

Cheers,
Tink

Google Rules

I never came across that (or didn't interpret it properly)...
That was all I was running. It seemed a simple enough concept that I just wanted to prove so I copied the example word for word (well, subtituting blah blah for some of it ) There's one known error in this book anyway.

I added
print'nothing more', "\n";
as the last line and it worked fine.

Thanks!

Duh. I do need rest now. All of a sudden I realized what you actually meant by new line. Simply
"\n";
also works fine.
I have been playing with different scripts for 7 hours tonight and think it's past my bedtime!