Cannot proces shell variable

Hi All,
I am trying to write a BASH shell script, where I need to process the value of a database column. I am having trouble processing this value, and would like to know what your thoughts are. The part of the script I am having difficulty with has been isolated, and is presented below:
[oracle@oelvm03 bin]$ cat Problem.sh
#!/bin/bash
export ORACLE_SID=ORCL
export ORAENV_ASK=NO
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
. oraenv
LOG_MODE=`sqlplus -s / as sysdba << EOF
set heading off
select log_mode from v\\$database;
exit;
EOF`
echo $LOG_MODE
case $LOG_MODE in
NOARCHIVELOG)
echo In NOARCHIVELOG Mode.
ARCHIVELOG)
echo In ARCHIVELOG mode.
MANUAL)
echo Manual Archiving.
echo Oops - Don\'t know what this mode is - ~$LOG_MODE~
esac
echo Finished!
[oracle@oelvm03 bin]$ Problem.sh
The Oracle base for ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1 is /opt/oracle/app/oracle
ARCHIVELOG
Oops - Don't know what this mode is - ~ ARCHIVELOG~
Finished!
[oracle@oelvm03 bin]$The script is running on Oracle Enterprise Linux, against an Oracle 11gR2 database.
The problem is that the value of the LOG_MODE variable is not being processed correctly by the case statement. Examining the error message shows that there appears to be a leading space before the value
~ ARCHIVELOG~
I have tried desperately, in other scripts, to isolate the value and get the case to respond appropriately, but without any success.
Does anybody have any ideas on what I am doing wrong??

It will work in this case, but I would generally not use this approach. Please see below:
var="This v$log"
var=`echo $var`
echo $var
This vUsing "set pages 0 feed off" will not cause such problems and suppress control characters, feedback and other headers that you don't want when putting the output of a sql statement into a variable.

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