"here" docs

Eugene Tsyrklevich eugenet at mailcity.com
Sun Feb 27 02:51:49 CST 2000


~sdpm~
here docs are very easy to break and are very hard to debug.. qq() and friends should be used instead (http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/manual/html/pod/perlop.html#Quote_and_Quote_like_Operators)


print qq{blah
blah blah};


cheers.


--

On Sat, 26 Feb 2000 21:38:51   Russ Schnapp wrote:
>~sdpm~
>
>Congrats!
>
>The reason you are getting back a message about an empty 
>document is quite simple.  All you are returning is the content 
>header.  You aren't returning anything to actually display!
>
>Decide on what html you want to be returned when this CGI script 
>is invoked, and emit that.  The easiest way is through a "here" doc, 
>e.g., by adding the following to the end of your script:
>
>print <<END;
><html>
><head>
><title>Thank you!</title>
></head>
><body>
><h1 align="center">Thank you!</h1>
><p>Your form has been successfully submitted.</p>
></body>
></html>
>END



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