From: equinox <aditya15417@...>
Date: 2008-12-02T12:14:30+09:00
Subject: Re: while loop in a here documents

On Dec 1, 7:08 pm, Ken Bloom <kbl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:33:06 -0800, equinox wrote:
> > I have a here documents of something like this:
>
> > form = <<"DONE"
>
> > while( bla ..bla .. bla) do
>
> > this
>
> > DONE
>
> > How can I do a while loop inside a here documents in ruby? Is it
> > possible?
>
> If you want to use erb, then you can do something like that.
>
> require 'erb'
>
> erb=ERB.new <<-'DONE'
> <% 5.times do %>
> this text is repeated
> <% end %>
> DONE
> form=erb.result(binding)
>
> Be warned that you have to place the commands correctly to avoid getting
> extra newlines. (This is mostly intended for HTML templating, where
> newlines don't matter.)
>
> --
> Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
> Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/

I am not using erb unfortunately, anyway to go around this?