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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 18:56:13 -0500 (CDT)
From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
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Subject: Un*x scripting magic
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Hi all,

A have a chunk of perl code something like this.

  # insert bunch of code here

    my $msg <<EndOfMessage;
%%MESSAGE%%
EndOfMessage

  # more code goes here

Then I have a multi-line (printable characters only) ASCII
text file containing the message that I'd like to replace
for %%MESSAGE%%. [1]  Anyone have a neat little trick in
their bag-o-magic?  I know the answer should be really
obvious but everything I've tried thus either hasn't worked
or was too convoluted.

TIA.

-steve

[1] The code is something that I wrote and the content of
    the message is being written by someone else.  I'd really
    like to keep their hands out of the code if at all
    possible.



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