From: Karl von Laudermann <doodpants@...>
Date: 2008-01-12T05:45:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Here Document syntax is stringent - trailing blank

On Jan 11, 1:14 pm, Todd Burch <pro...@burchwoodusa.com> wrote:
>
> I can put as many blanks as I want after the top delimiter - ruby
> figures it out.

Actually, you can put more code after the top delimiter as well:

$ cat thing.rb
puts <<EOT * 5 # print "Hello world" 5 times
Hello world
EOT

$ ruby thing.rb
Hello world
Hello world
Hello world
Hello world
Hello world