Learning how to program /w perl

[jshook]

So I just started yesterday trying to learn how to program. I chose Perl as my first language and I'm using this online/PDF book. (I'm on chapter 2 by the way, where it says here-documents)

http://learn.perl.org/books/beginning-perl/

But anyways right now I'm on "Here-documents" and I've copied it exactly like it says on the tutorial:

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#!/usr/bin/perl
#heredoc.pl
use warnings;
print<<EOF;

This is a here-document. It starts on the line after the two arrows, and
it ends when the text following the arrows is found at the beginning of
a line, like this:

EOF

And I get the following error when I run it:

Can't find string terminator "EOF" anywhere before EOF at C:\perl_tests\heredoc.pl line 4

Thanks for your help!

[pertti123]

And I get the following error when I run it:

Can't find string terminator "EOF" anywhere before EOF at C:\perl_tests\heredoc.pl line 4

Thanks for your help!

Are you using notepad as a text editor? You're probably missing a newline after the last EOF, so just add one.
From perlop:

If the terminating identifier is on the last line of the program, you must be sure there is a newline after
it; otherwise, Perl will give the warning Can’t find string terminator "END" anywhere before EOF....

[jshook]

Thanks alot dude! That fixed my problem