On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, David Alan Black wrote:

> On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Robert Feldt wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, ts wrote:
> > 
> > > >>>>> "R" == Robert Feldt <feldt / ce.chalmers.se> writes:
> > > 
> > > R> I haven't found any docs on """ here documents
> > > 
> > >  Well, this is the syntax for string, you have just written
> > > 
> > > pigeon% ruby -v -e 'puts "" "abc" "def" ""'
> > > ruby 1.6.2 (2000-12-25) [i686-linux]
> > > abcdef
> > > pigeon% 
> > > 
> > puts """
> >   Ok, Guy but this sure looks very much
> >   like what you can acheive with here documents!
> >   """
> > 
> > puts <<-HERE
> >   Dont, you agree or am I missing something?
> >   HERE
> 
> 
> puts "
> 
>    But isn't what you're doing also achieved by using
>    one set of double quotes?  
> 
> "
> 
Yeah, you're right. Sorry for wasting bandwith. I saw this in someone
else's code and thought it was a new way to specify here docs. I now see
that there is a small difference. When using double quotes you get an
extra newline before the first line.

/Robert