.\" -*- mode: troff; coding: utf-8 -*- .\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 5.01 (Pod::Simple 3.43) .\" .\" Standard preamble: .\" ======================================================================== .de Sp \" Vertical space (when we can't use .PP) .if t .sp .5v .if n .sp .. .de Vb \" Begin verbatim text .ft CW .nf .ne \\$1 .. .de Ve \" End verbatim text .ft R .fi .. .\" \*(C` and \*(C' are quotes in nroff, nothing in troff, for use with C<>. .ie n \{\ . ds C` "" . ds C' "" 'br\} .el\{\ . ds C` . ds C' 'br\} .\" .\" Escape single quotes in literal strings from groff's Unicode transform. .ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq .el .ds Aq ' .\" .\" If the F register is >0, we'll generate index entries on stderr for .\" titles (.TH), headers (.SH), subsections (.SS), items (.Ip), and index .\" entries marked with X<> in POD. Of course, you'll have to process the .\" output yourself in some meaningful fashion. .\" .\" Avoid warning from groff about undefined register 'F'. .de IX .. .nr rF 0 .if \n(.g .if rF .nr rF 1 .if (\n(rF:(\n(.g==0)) \{\ . if \nF \{\ . de IX . tm Index:\\$1\t\\n%\t"\\$2" .. . if !\nF==2 \{\ . nr % 0 . nr F 2 . \} . \} .\} .rr rF .\" ======================================================================== .\" .IX Title "Perl::Critic::Policy::ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitImplicitNewlines 3pm" .TH Perl::Critic::Policy::ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitImplicitNewlines 3pm 2023-07-26 "perl v5.38.0" "User Contributed Perl Documentation" .\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. .if n .ad l .nh .SH NAME Perl::Critic::Policy::ValuesAndExpressions::ProhibitImplicitNewlines \- Use concatenation or HEREDOCs instead of literal line breaks in strings. .SH AFFILIATION .IX Header "AFFILIATION" This Policy is part of the core Perl::Critic distribution. .SH DESCRIPTION .IX Header "DESCRIPTION" Strings with embedded line breaks are hard to read. Use concatenation or HEREDOCs instead. .PP .Vb 2 \& my $foo = "Line one is quite long \& Line two"; # Bad \& \& my $foo = "Line one is quite long\enLine two"; # Better, but still hard to read \& \& my $foo = "Line one is quite long\en" \& . "Line two"; # Better still \& \& my $foo = <<\*(AqEOF\*(Aq; # Use heredoc for longer passages \& Line one is quite long \& Line two \& Line three breaks the camel\*(Aqs back \& EOF .Ve .SH CONFIGURATION .IX Header "CONFIGURATION" This Policy is not configurable except for the standard options. .SH AUTHOR .IX Header "AUTHOR" Chris Dolan .SH CREDITS .IX Header "CREDITS" Initial development of this policy was supported by a grant from the Perl Foundation. .SH COPYRIGHT .IX Header "COPYRIGHT" Copyright (c) 2007\-2011 Chris Dolan. Many rights reserved. .PP 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.