From: "Mark J.Reed" <mreed@...>
Date: 2005-08-12T05:41:11+09:00
Subject: Re: How do I use heredocs

Your program is failing because you have 12 spaces after the "EOS".
You can't have anything on the line after the here-document terminator,
not even whitespace.  

hsun <sunh11373@hotmail.com> writes:

>Hi,

>I have a simple test program.

>=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
>class QuickTest
>   =20
>    def testMe
>        str =3D <<EOS
>         Some Application data
>EOS           =20
>        puts str
>    end   =20
> =20
>end

>if $0 =3D=3D __FILE__ then

>    $test =3D QuickTest.new
>    $test.testMe
>end =20
>=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
>=3D=3D

>I got this error and could not figure out what's wrong?

>=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
>=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
>QuickTest.rb:21: can't find string "EOS" anywhere before EOF
>QuickTest.rb:6: syntax error
>=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
>=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D

>Can someone help?

>I am running Ruby 1.8 on Windows XP


>Thanks