Re: syntax highlighting perl with large multiline html strings

Hi Fred,

just a tangential note.

On Tuesday 31 May 2011 23:02:58 Fred Malone wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I apologize if this has been asked before. I do a lot of programming in
> perl as cgi files and such. Many of the scripts I work on do a lot of html
> printing. Frequently there are multi-line html sections such as this:
> print <<HTML;

You should always specify the type of quotes of the here-doc explicitly:
<<"HTML" or <<'HTML' because people don't always get it right. For more
information see:

http://perl-begin.org/tutorials/bad-elements/#string-notation

And:

http://perl-begin.org/books/advanced/#pbp

Regards,

Shlomi Fish

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