From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2007-01-14T14:42:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Long quotes on multiple lines

Hi,

At Sun, 14 Jan 2007 14:20:54 +0900,
Robert James wrote in [ruby-talk:233900]:
> Is there an idiomatic way to continue a long quote on a separate line,
> or should I just do:
> 
> "If you need help," +
> " please dial the operator"

# string literal concatenation
puts "If you need help," \
     " please dial the operator"

# escaping new lines
puts "If you need help,\
 please dial the operator"

# ditto, with here doc
puts <<EOS
If you need help,\
 please dial the operator
EOS

-- 
Nobu Nakada