From: Stu <stu@...>
Date: 2011-02-19T06:43:31+09:00
Subject: Re: question for newbie

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you need to remove the space between << and END_STR for the heredoc to work

like so

here = <<EOF
I am inside
a here doc
EOF

puts here

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Nericl Lau <nericlau@gmail.com> wrote:

> a = << END_STR
> This is the string
> And a second line
> END_STR
> puts a
>
>
> What does it mean?
> I kept getting this error
>
>
> q1.rb:1: syntax error, unexpected tLSHFT
> a = << END_STR
>
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