heredoc
In Perl, you can create a heredoc with the following syntax.
$a_variable = <<"eof"; This is a variable that contains a bunch of text on a bunch of lines. That's the benefit of using heredocs - you don't have to print line by line. eof
Note here that there is a semi-colon after the first line ... "eof"; but none after the last line eof. This is important. Also, the eof part, that's up to you. Put anything there you like. eof generally stands for end of file, or eol end of line. I'm not sure why I use eof, but I do.
Just for reference, in PHP, a heredoc looks like
$a_variable = <<<eof This is a variable that contains a bunch of text on a bunch of lines. That's the benefit of using heredocs - you don't have to print line by line. eof;
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