I have a here documents of something like this:
form = <<“DONE”
while( bla …bla … bla) do
this
DONE
How can I do a while loop inside a here documents in ruby? Is it
possible?
On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:33:06 -0800, equinox wrote:
How can I do a while loop inside a here documents in ruby? Is it
possible?
If you want to use erb, then you can do something like that.
require ‘erb’
erb=ERB.new <<-‘DONE’
<% 5.times do %>
this text is repeated
<% end %>
DONE
form=erb.result(binding)
Be warned that you have to place the commands correctly to avoid getting
extra newlines. (This is mostly intended for HTML templating, where
newlines don’t matter.)
On Dec 1, 7:08 pm, Ken B. [email protected] wrote:
<% end %>
DONE
form=erb.result(binding)Be warned that you have to place the commands correctly to avoid getting
extra newlines. (This is mostly intended for HTML templating, where
newlines don’t matter.)–
Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
I am not using erb unfortunately, anyway to go around this?
On 02.12.2008 02:33, equinox wrote:
How can I do a while loop inside a here documents in ruby? Is it
possible?
What exactly are you trying to achieve? Do you want to have repeated
content from the here doc?
robert
Something like this? Though this has other problems…
STDOUT.sync = true
my_text = <<-FINISHED
Note the sequence of when these things are written.
#{3.times do
puts “Hello”
end
} times a greeting was written.
end of my text
FINISHED
puts my_text
On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:15:29 -0800, equinox wrote:
DONE
this text is repeated
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of
Technology.http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/I am not using erb unfortunately, anyway to go around this?
No. You’ll have to put the loop outside the string.