Turn off interpolation in print << ? 1

[serpento]

I have recently discovered the folloeing device:

print <<HTML_END;
(What you want to print)
HTML_END

And find it very useful. My questiuon is this: if what you want to print contains lots of @ and $ signs in (as in talking about email addresses and currency rather than variables), is there away of turning interpolation off so I don't have to put a backslash before every case?

Any help would as always be much appreciated.

-Ed ;-)

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[mikevh]

Enclose the end token in single quotes, e.g.

#!perl
use strict;

print <<'EOF';
@blah $twenty-seven
$ninety_two 43
@hike
EOF

Outputs
@blah $twenty-seven
$ninety_two 43
@hike

 

[duncdude]

nice answer mikevh - i had no idea you could do that!


Kind Regards
Duncan

 

[serpento]

Thanks that perfect! Have a star.

-Ed ;-)

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[kjones162]

just nicked this :

print <<HTML_END;
(What you want to print)
HTML_END

works a treat, thanks !

 

[missbarbell]

And if you don't like to indent your code rather than have everything starting from the first column, have a look at Filter::Indent::HereDoc. Rather nice.

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