"here document" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: here documents [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} here document (plural here documents)
  1. (programming) A block of text included in the source code of a computer program in such a way that it is treated as a single string literal with line breaks etc. as written. Synonyms: heredoc, here-text Related terms: docstring, nowdoc

Inflected forms

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