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| author | zzak <zzak@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e> | 2013-08-12 23:54:38 +0000 |
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| committer | zzak <zzak@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e> | 2013-08-12 23:54:38 +0000 |
| commit | 077fa24833e2eb397fa64b2d584bf8235d97df0b (patch) | |
| tree | ec9dec2ad938bfb36ecb678aabc7eb7644b37598 | |
| parent | da3d79d20311deb79c110c3fe07bbb184bc8f961 (diff) | |
* doc/syntax/literals.rdoc: [DOC] String literal concat by @cknadler
[Fixes GH-380] https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/380
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@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +Tue Aug 13 08:52:18 2013 Zachary Scott <e@zzak.io> + + * doc/syntax/literals.rdoc: [DOC] String literal concat by @cknadler + [Fixes GH-380] https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/380 + Mon Aug 12 23:07:21 2013 Masaya Tarui <tarui@ruby-lang.org> * gc.c (gc_marks_test): inhibit gc for st's operation. diff --git a/doc/syntax/literals.rdoc b/doc/syntax/literals.rdoc index d521cafe31..e01b6875d4 100644 --- a/doc/syntax/literals.rdoc +++ b/doc/syntax/literals.rdoc @@ -111,6 +111,18 @@ like a single-quote string (no interpolation or character escaping) while <tt>%Q</tt> behaves as a double-quote string. See Percent Strings below for more discussion of the syntax of percent strings. +Adjacent string literals are automatically concatenated by the interpreter: + + "con" "cat" "en" "at" "ion" #=> "concatenation" + "This string contains "\ + "no newlines." #=> "This string contains no newlines." + +Any combination of adjacent single-quote, double-quote, percent strings will +be concatenated as long as a percent-string is not last. + + %q{a} 'b' "c" #=> "abc" + "a" 'b' %q{c} #=> NameError: uninitialized constant q + === Here Documents If you are writing a large block of text you may use a "here document" or |