From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-10-03T17:10:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Feature Request:  Truly Indented Here-Docs

On Sunday, October 3, 2004, 1:55:51 PM, James wrote:

> Ruby's here-doc syntax baffles me.  I don't get the indent the end tag
> feature.

> string = <<-END_OF_STRING
>   Line one...
>   line two...
>   line three.
>   END_OF_STRING

> That leaves all the tabs at the beginning of those lines, which then
> begs the question, why did I bother to indent the end tag?

> It would make a lot more sense to me if lines of a here-doc were 
> stripped of leading whitespace equal to the indention of the end tag.
> Is there any reason this wasn't done, or isn't practical?

> If not, please consider this an official request, by at least one 
> coder...

I sympathise.  What I do:

  require 'extensions/string'

  string = %{
    | Line one...
    | line two...
    | line three.
  }.trim('|')

Gavin