Re: Does zsh have a hereis to variable???

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

zzapper wrote:
> In this this I want the perl to be inline and not in an external file (for po
> rtability)

Well, it's not very elegant, but you can do

var="$(cat <<'HERE'
while (<>) {
print $ENV{"PATH"};
}
HERE)"

where the quotes on the first HERE are important.  You can't have
unbalanced parentheses in the Perl code, however.  Double quotes aren't
a problem.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
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