From: Ronald Fischer <ronald.fischer@...>
Date: 2007-09-04T19:02:36+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

Of course, that's it!!! I must have been blind! Thanks a lot.

Ronald