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authorbrian d foy <brian.d.foy@gmail.com>2011-03-01 00:49:49 -0600
committerbrian d foy <brian.d.foy@gmail.com>2011-03-01 00:50:06 -0600
commitaebb553869411bee67ba48fb631c11887b29d678 (patch)
tree7c467f1e90f9dfa263855bcb9a960f41056282e4 /pod
parent779d7b583592ec4538f1c48ad25793abb6ef5283 (diff)
downloadperl-aebb553869411bee67ba48fb631c11887b29d678.tar.gz
Note here docs need a line separator after the last token
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diff --git a/pod/perlfaq4.pod b/pod/perlfaq4.pod
index 99668d5c62..970100a28e 100644
--- a/pod/perlfaq4.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfaq4.pod
@@ -1172,16 +1172,18 @@ Stringification also destroys arrays.
=head2 Why don't my E<lt>E<lt>HERE documents work?
-Check for these three things:
+Here documents are found in L<perlop>. Check for these three things:
=over 4
=item There must be no space after the E<lt>E<lt> part.
-=item There (probably) should be a semicolon at the end.
+=item There (probably) should be a semicolon at the end of the opening token
=item You can't (easily) have any space in front of the tag.
+=item There needs to be at least a line separator after the end token.
+
=back
If you want to indent the text in the here document, you