A simle Perl code with here-document works on Linux but not on Windows

Question

While practicing I found that the following code is working fine on Linux but not on Windows

print<<EOF;
this is a paragraph
EOF

On Windows it says.

Can't find string terminator "EOF" anywhere before EOF at demo.pl.

Does your file have the right line ends? Linux: LF, Windows CR+LF — urzeit, Mar 24 '14 at 07:00
yes it is there.just now i tried the same code by creating the file using copy con cmmand and it worked fine.but not working with file created using notepad — nikhil mehta, Mar 24 '14 at 07:09
Then it seems that your windows perl does not understand windows line ends and needs linux line ends. — urzeit, Mar 24 '14 at 07:10
What says online `demo.pl` dump? http://www.fileformat.info/tool/hexdump.htm — mpapec, Mar 24 '14 at 07:28
Basically just 4 possibilities. There's spacing before the EOF token. There's spacing after the EOF token. There is no line terminator at that line. Or the line terminators are the wrong format, unix versus windows. — Miller, Mar 24 '14 at 07:44

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 24 '14 at 07:12

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Windows thinks the end of file is part of the terminating string EOF, thus it doesn't follow the rule that The terminating string must appear by itself. You need to add a new line after the terminating string EOF.

print<<EOF;
this is a paragraph
EOF
# a new line

answered Mar 24 '14 at 07:12

Yu Hao

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@nikhilmehta It works on my machine(Perl v5.16.3, Windows 7 64-bit) – Yu Hao Mar 24 '14 at 07:19
@nikhilmehta I'm using Active Perl, I wonder if this makes a difference. – Yu Hao Mar 24 '14 at 07:34

A simle Perl code with here-document works on Linux but not on Windows

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