From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-02-06T21:51:37+09:00
Subject: Re: %, % revisited

On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 08:45:16PM +0900, Dossy wrote:
>     o here document with trailing dash "<<-" strips leading tabs 
> 
> It seems that Ruby's here-doc doesn't implement this:
> 
> irb(main):001:0> p <<-"EOT"
> irb(main):002:0"        this is
> irb(main):003:0"        a test
> irb(main):004:0" EOT
> "\tthis is\n\ta test\n"
> nil
> 
> I'm generating the tabs using ^V^I in irb ... at least Ruby parsed it as
> a here-doc, even if it didn't strip the tabs ...

In Ruby <<-EOF means that EOF can be indented.

puts <<EOF
	bla b
	bla
 	EOF
  	bfdbd
EOF  #real EO here-doc


....
	puts <<-EOF
 		bla
 		bla
 	EOF
....

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