Perl::Critic::Policy::ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitImplicitNewlines - Use concatenation or HEREDOCs
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Affiliation
This Policy is part of the core Perl::Critic distribution.
Configuration
This Policy is not configurable except for the standard options.
Copyright
Copyright (c) 2007-2011 Chris Dolan. Many rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl
itself. The full text of this license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.
perl v5.40.0 2024-10-28 Perl::Critic::P...mplicitNewlines(3pm)
Credits
Initial development of this policy was supported by a grant from the Perl Foundation.
Description
Strings with embedded line breaks are hard to read. Use concatenation or HEREDOCs instead.
my $foo = "Line one is quite long
Line two"; # Bad
my $foo = "Line one is quite long\nLine two"; # Better, but still hard to read
my $foo = "Line one is quite long\n"
. "Line two"; # Better still
my $foo = <<'EOF'; # Use heredoc for longer passages
Line one is quite long
Line two
Line three breaks the camel's back
EOF
Name
Perl::Critic::Policy::ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitImplicitNewlines - Use concatenation or HEREDOCs
instead of literal line breaks in strings.
