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From: jbw@bucsf.bu.edu (Joe Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Bourne Shell's <<-EOF syntax (Feature Request)
Message-ID: <JBW.90Nov17005830@bucsf.bu.edu>
Date: 17 Nov 90 05:58:30 GMT
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Organization: Boston University Computer Science Department
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Feature request:

The Bourne shell (later versions) has this syntax:

cat <<-EOF
	First line
	Second line
	EOF

which is equivalent to this:

cat <<EOF
First line
Second line
EOF

Thus allowing one to properly indent one's here-is quotes to match the
indentatation level of the program they are in.

This would be real nice for Perl ......

-- 
Joe Wells <jbw@bu.edu>