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wrote:
> Dear expert,
>
> Why my text under END_OF_TEXT doesn't
> appear with line break (i.e. in browser it should
> appear in 3 lines)

Because that is the way that HTML works. Figure out the HTML
you need to use to do what you want to do (for example, with <br> or <p>),
then print *that* HTML.

Xho

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Dear expert,

Why my text under END_OF_TEXT doesn't
appear with line break (i.e. in browser it should
appear in 3 lines) as shown in this script verbatim:

__BEGIN__

use CGI qw(:standard);

print header,
start_html(
-title => "Some Long Text",
-style => { -src => './css_scripts/my.css' },
),
h1("Some long text");

print <<END_OF_TEXT;

foo bar
foo bar
foo bar

END_OF_TEXT

__END__

It appears as one line like this:

foo bar foo bar foo bar

What's wrong with my script above?

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wrote:
> Dear expert,
>
> Why my text under END_OF_TEXT doesn't
> appear with line break (i.e. in browser it should
> appear in 3 lines)

This is an HTML question, not a Perl question. You are in the wrong place.

The reason is that newline characters do not indicate line-breaks in
HTML. The HTML element <BR> (or <BR/>) does. See http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/

DS


as shown in this script verbatim:
>
> __BEGIN__
>
> use CGI qw(:standard);
>
> print header,
> start_html(
> -title => "Some Long Text",
> -style => { -src => './css_scripts/my.css' },
> ),
> h1("Some long text");
>
> print <<END_OF_TEXT;
>
> foo bar
> foo bar
> foo bar
>
> END_OF_TEXT
>
> __END__
>
> It appears as one line like this:
>
> foo bar foo bar foo bar
>
> What's wrong with my script above?

Nothing. It is fine, and the browser is correctly displaying the HTML
you provided.

>
> --
> Regards,
> Gundala Viswanath
>

wrote:
> Why my text under END_OF_TEXT doesn't
> appear with line break (i.e. in browser it should
> appear in 3 lines)

<snip>

> print <<END_OF_TEXT;

One way to display plain text in an HTML document is to use the <pre>
element, in this case:

print pre(<<END_OF_TEXT);

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