From: Dale Phillips <phillidNOSPAM@...>
Date: 2001-01-26T07:10:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9902] Re: ruby and HERE docs

David Alan Black wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Dale Phillips wrote:
> 
> > does ruby have the concept of
> > here documents like shell and perl?
> >
> > #!/bin/perl
> > $time=2001012500000
> > print << STUFF
> >
> > a bunch of text
> > put here and and completed
> > at $time.
> >
> > STUFF
> 
> Yes.
> 
> #!/bin/ruby -w
> time = 2001001250000
> print <<STUFF
> 
> a bunch of text
> put here and completed at #{time}
> 
> STUFF
> 
> and variants on that (such as "print <<-STUFF", where STUFF doesn't have to
> be at the start of its line).
> 
> David
> 
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Very nice. Thanks for the speedy reply.

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