From: Chris Morris <chrismo@...>
Date: 2003-08-06T05:36:43+09:00
Subject: No trailing spaces after closing here doc tag?

Just had a frustrating thing come up. With the following:

  var = <<-DOC
    yo
  DOC

... and trailing spaces after the final DOC, I get this:

    C:\Temp>more zz.rb
      var = <<-DOC
        yo
      DOC


    C:\Temp>ruby -v
    ruby 1.8.0 (2003-08-04) [i386-mswin32]

    C:\Temp>zz
    C:/Temp/zz.rb:4: can't find string "DOC" anywhere before EOF
    C:/Temp/zz.rb:1: syntax error

I get the same on ruby 1.6.6, windows.

Is this a bug?

I don't need trailing spaces there, of course, and removing them makes 
the problem go away. I just didn't know they were there and when 
embedded in some longer code the syntax error gets buried under another 
one. (Well, I just spent 5 minutes trying to extract a standalone 
example out of a long script of code to demonstrate, but couldn't get 
one that hid the here doc error).

-- 

Chris
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