From: Todd Burch <promos@...>
Date: 2008-01-11T22:05:12+09:00
Subject: Here Document syntax is stringent - trailing blank

text = <<EOD

Hi there.  Why does the Here Document
require there to be no space after
the closing symbol?  If I type "EOD " and press
enter, I get a syntax error. (See below.) If I type "EOD" with
an immediate carraige return, it works fine.

Why so stringent?
EOD

puts text


=begin
Error: #<SyntaxError: (eval):0:in `load': /Library/Application
Support/Google SketchUp
6/SketchUp/Plugins/myscripts/here_document_test.rb:12: can't find string
"EOD" anywhere before EOF
/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp
6/SketchUp/Plugins/myscripts/here_document_test.rb:1: parse error,
unexpected $, expecting tSTRING_CONTENT or tSTRING_DBEG or tSTRING_DVAR
or tSTRING_END>
(eval)
(eval):0

=end
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