From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-03-31T05:19:23+09:00
Subject: Re: proposal - delayed intropolation in heredoc

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 21:58:06 +0900, YANAGAWA Kazuhisa wrote:
> In Message-Id: <pan.2004.03.29.15.49.45.527862@adslhome.dk>
> Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@adslhome.dk> writes:
> 
>> Space isn't preserved.. I think you have misunderstood my proposal ;-)
> 
> This particular case, you can use sprintf or String#%, can't you?
> 
>     > ruby <<EOS
>     str = <<END.gsub(/^\s{2}/, "")
>       string
>       %s
>       string
>     END
>     puts str%"  inserted"
>     EOS
>     string
>       inserted
>     string

Bommer..  Yes '%' does the trick.  Silly me.  I have been using this many
times before, but without realizing its potential. 

Thanks Yanagawa, this is awesome ;-)

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Simon Strandgaard