Using here documents in views

Rails
1

I’m trying to use a here document to define a multiple-line string in a
.rhtml file.
I keep getting compile errors- “the specified string (by identifier)
could not be found before EOF”

I’m trying:

<% my_str = <<MY_END
text
MY_END %>

I’ve also tried in seperate ERb blocks

<% my_str = <<MY_END %>
text
<% MY_END %>

Same problem. Is there a simple thing I need to do?

Thanks a lot.

2

Hi –

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, mankeyrabbit wrote:

MY_END %>

I’ve also tried in seperate ERb blocks

<% my_str = <<MY_END %>
text
<% MY_END %>

Same problem. Is there a simple thing I need to do?

Try this:

<% my_str = <<MY_END
text
MY_END
%>

David

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3

sorted! thank you!