[Omaha.pm] q{} is your friend. shell escaping is not :)

[Andy Lester]

On Feb 4, 2010, at 9:58 AM, Todd Christopher Hamilton wrote:

> I like goffy_b because I don't have to have the EOF terminator in  
> column 1 but I think PerCritic complains about using q{} over  
> multiple lines.


Heredocs have the benefit of being much easier to cut & paste into  
other places, whether from the editor or from the terminal.  I used it  
always for all SQL, certainly.

Also, with $x = q{\n....\n}, you get the leading \n, whereas with  
heredocs you don't.

xoxo,
Andy

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