From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-09-11T23:35:53+09:00
Subject: Re: heredoc with variable interpolation breaks script

On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 06:20:34PM +0900, Oliver Heins wrote:
> I have a somewhat weird problem: Since a few days (I recognized
> yesterday) a script ceased to work which did perfectly before.  I
> stripped it down to a heredoc with string interpolation, which now
> breaks the script.  Here's a minimal example:
> 



> #!/usr/bin/ruby
> 
> var1 = "test"
> var2 = <<EOF
> let us look #{test}
> EOF
> puts var2
You are calling the method "test" (which is a perlism, FYI) inside your
HEREDOC. I'm pretty sure this was just a typo, and you meant to say
#{var1}, not #{test}.
> 
> Running this script, I get the following error:
> 
> ,----
> | olli@athene:~/tmp$ ./test.rb 
> | ./test.rb:5:in `test': wrong number of arguments (ArgumentError)
> |         from ./test.rb:5
> | olli@athene:~/tmp$ ruby --version
> | ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i486-linux]
> `----
> 
> I'm using ruby on a Debian unstable system.
> 
> TIA,
>  olli
> 
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