From: ts Date: 2003-01-14T21:01:46+09:00 Subject: Re: String literals >>>>> "R" == Radek Hnilica writes: R> but the last one, multiline, is there only in "" (expanding) variant. R> Is there unexpanding ('') variant of the multiline string literal. Something like this ? (see '' around EOF) pigeon% cat b.rb #!/usr/bin/ruby $a = 12 var = <<'EOF' variable #$a EOF p var pigeon% pigeon% b.rb "variable #$a\n" pigeon% Guy Decoux