From: Navindra Umanee <navindra@...>
Date: 2005-02-08T03:08:12+09:00
Subject: Re: delayed string interpolation

Bill Kelly <billk@cts.com> wrote:
> I'm guessing I got into the habit early on to remind
> myself that ruby lets you specify single-quote semantics
> if you want them, like:
> 
> x = <<'ENDTEXT'
> now things like \n are literal
> as they would be in 'single quote' strings
> ENDTEXT

Oh, hmph.  I didn't even know that.  It's not really documented is it?

I didn't even realise \n would be converted to a newline in heredoc as
well.  Going to have to be really really careful about things like
user-input, I guess.

Thanks for the useful information. :)

Cheers,
Navin.