From: Sebastian Hungerecker <sepp2k@...>
Date: 2007-09-04T18:53:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Syntaxerror with HERE document

Ronald Fischer wrote:
> Why does the following statement give syntax error "undefined method
> `STDOUT'"?
>
> STDOUT <<-END
>    line 1
>    line 2
>    END

Because that's equivalent to STDOUT "bla", not STDOUT << "bla".
The << in your code is part of the heredoc syntax. You want
STDOUT << <<-END
  line 1
  line 2
  END

HTH,
Sebastian
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