From: Peter Vandenabeele <peter@...>
Date: 2012-01-23T21:50:47+09:00
Subject: Re: codepart - please explain!

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On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Robert Klemme
<shortcutter@googlemail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Peter Vandenabeele
> <peter@vandenabeele.com> wrote:
>
...

> > def runCode
> >  return <<STARTCODE
> >  (..)
> > STARTCODE  # NO margin left of STARTCODE
> > end
>
> Careful with comments on that line:
>
> 13:33:38 Temp$ ruby19 x.rb
> x.rb:6: can't find string "STARTCODE" anywhere before EOF
> x.rb:2: syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting tSTRING_CONTENT or
> tSTRING_DBEG or tSTRING_DVAR or tSTRING_END
> 13:34:12 Temp$ cat -n x.rb
>     1
>     2  s=<<STARTCODE
>     3  x
>     4  STARTCODE # NO margin left of STARTCODE
>     5
>     6  p s
> 13:34:14 Temp$
>
> Cheers
>
> robert
>

Indeed.

I did some tests now and if I see correctly, both
the EOS (End Of String) and -EOS here doc formats
require that EOS is immediately followed by a
newline in the code.

Thank you :-)

Peter

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