From: David Holroyd <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2006-09-26T22:33:53+09:00
Subject: Re: "unknown type of string?"

On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 10:15:59PM +0900, Peter Bailey wrote:
> RUBY's complaining about a string I want to write to a file.
> The script line looks like this:
> 
> file_contents << "\%\%Blank page for Asura.\n\%\%Page: 
> #{newtotalpages.to_i}\nshowpage\n"
> 
> and, RUBY's complaint looks like this:
> 
> E:/PageCounts/pagecounter.rb:42: unknown type of %string
>                         file_contents << "\%\%Blank page for 
> Asura.\n\%\%Page: #{newtotalpages.to_i}\nshowpage\n"
>                                                 ^

Are you missing a closing double quote on an earlier line?



dave

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