From: Charles Steinman <acharlieblue@...>
Date: 2005-07-29T03:51:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Hash and multiline items


Yannick Turgeon wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm a newbie and I wanted to get a hash with items having multilines string.
> Something like this (air coded) :
>
> SQL  = {
>         "Company" => <<-END_SQL
>                 SELECT Name
>                 FROM Company
>                 WHERE Active = 1
>         END_SQL
>         ,
>         "Employee" => <<-END_SQL
>                 SELECT Name, Title
>                 FROM Employee
>                 WHERE Active = 1
>         END_SQL
> }
>
> But it doesn't work. I get an error. I suppose I have to use the "\" line
> continuation? I prefer this synthaxe though.
>
> Is there a way to use the "labeled" multiline way in a hash? Any other style
> suggestion?

It looks like heredoc statements don't play well with Hashes. How does
this strike your fancy?

SQL  = {
  "Company" => %q{
    SELECT Name
    FROM Company
    WHERE Active = 1
  },

  "Employee" => %q{
    SELECT Name, Title 
    FROM Employee 
    WHERE Active = 1 
  }
}