I'm trying to do something with a long winded string. I currently am assigning the variable to it with the following;

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The problem is, that " | and other charachters like that are taken literally. Is there anything I can surround the variable so that it doesn't take stuff within it literally? Basically, a similar thing like \Q in Regex. I've tried;

$var = '';
$var = "";
$var = qq||;;
$var = qq~~;
...etc

Any suggestions?

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As you are using qq| then surely the only thing you'd need to escape is |'s within the string.

With a quick look I can't see any curly braces, so try:

qq{ ... }

If you escape it, it may screw up the encoded code.

Yeah, thats what I was thinking (didn't try {} though), either way, its still giving me an error


Its this bit;

%9D=

Is it the % thats causing the problem? I wouldn't have thought it would be, cos you can use % in qq| etc

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Howz about...

my ($image) = <<'END_OF_IMG';

...

END_OF_IMG

Still producing the same error. I just can't work out why its spewing up errors

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What's the error?

Can a string be that long?

- wil

I just tested it out and it works fine for me.

http://213.106.15.160/cgi-bin/test.cgi

And $'s. =)

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...and @'s

Weird. Won't work for me.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
print $IN->header();

my ($image) = <<<END_OF_IMG
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END_OF_IMG;

binmode IMAGE;
$_ = $image;
tr#A-Za-z0-9+/##cd;
tr#A-Za-z0-9+/# -_#;
print IMAGE unpack('u*', chr(32 + int(length($_)*3/4)) . $_);



What did you use? I'm still getting the error;


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You forgot the single quotes around END_OF_IMG.

Cheers,

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...and also the semi-colon. Also the semi-colon *after* END_OF_IMG needs removing.

There were also three <'s intead of two

Ok...I'm lost. In your code, you use;

my ($var) = <<'NAME';
stuff for this variable
NAME

.,..and yours works. I don't really use this way of showing stuff in perl (or assigning) strings. In PHP its very similar, so maybe I'm just getting confused

$var = <<<VAR_NAME
all the stuff for the var here
VAR_NAME;

So what is the correct format?

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Mine