Re: Can't find string terminator "EOM" - beginner question

* Sisyphus schrieb:
> <humphrey.c.chan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
>>
>> Can't find string terminator "EOM" anywhere before EOF at ./my-prog.pl
>> line 107.
>>
>> Here's my program excerpt -->>
>>
>> :
>> :
>> 105 open (MAIL, "| /usr/lib/sendmail -oi -t");
>> 106 select(MAIL);
>> 107 print <<EOM;
>> 108 From: sa@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> 109 To: user1@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> 110
>> 111 Subject: Alert !! Alert !!

As default here-docs do interpolate the string. That means, here you're
looking for any occurence of $scalars/@arrays/%hashes and replace it by
its current (stringified) value. Please escape that "@"-sign by writing
"sa\@bonjour.com".

Second, the Subject is part of the header. You have to delete line 110
if that "Subject:"-line should set the subject of this mail.

>> 112
>> 113
>> 114 Please check the system
>> 115 at your earliest convenience......
>> 116
>> 117 PS: You know who you arev !!
>> 118
>> 119
>> 120 EOM
>
> Looks to me that there's one or more spaces before EOM on line 120. Change
> it so that EOM occurs at the very start of the line and see if that helps.

And, in front of line 105 you marked with ":" that there are more lines.
Are there more lines after line 120 too? Make sure that there is also a
newline behind "EOM".

regards,
fabian
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