From: Anthony Ob <vidgametester@...>
Date: 2010-09-26T05:01:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Tutorial help

Anthony Ob wrote:
> http://rubylearning.com/satishtalim/variables_and_assignment.html
> 
> the a =<<END_STR
> spits out an error
> Here is what I coded with the tutorial
> [code/]#p004stringusage.rb
> #defining a constant
> PI = 3.1416
> puts PI
> # Defining a local variable
> myString = 'I love my city, Pune'
> puts myString
> =begin
> conversions
> .to_i, .to_f, .to_s
> =end
> var1=5;
> var2='2'
> puts var1+var2.to_i
> #<< appending to a string
> a='hello'
> a<<'world.
> I love this world...'
> puts a
> =begin << marks the start of the string literal and is followed by a
> dlimiter of your choice. The string literal then starts from the next
> new line and finishes when the delimiter is repeated again on a line
> of it own. This is know as Here document syntax.
> =end
> a = <<END_STR
> #This is the string and a second line
> ENG_STR
> puts a[/code]

btw here is the error message
p004stringusage.rb:28: can't find string "END_STR" anywhere before EOF
p004stringusage.rb:25: syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting 
tSTRING_CONTENT
or tSTRING_DBEG or tSTRING_DVAR or tSTRING_END
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