From: "Victor H. Goff III" <keeperotphones@...>
Date: 2008-12-02T16:26:17+09:00
Subject: Re: while loop in a here documents

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Something like this?  Though this has other problems...
STDOUT.sync = true
my_text =  <<-FINISHED
Note the sequence of when these things are written.
#{3.times do
  puts "Hello"
end
} times a greeting was written.
end of my text
FINISHED
puts my_text

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 8:14 PM, equinox <aditya15417@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
>
>

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