From 077fa24833e2eb397fa64b2d584bf8235d97df0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: zzak Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 23:54:38 +0000 Subject: * doc/syntax/literals.rdoc: [DOC] String literal concat by @cknadler [Fixes GH-380] https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/380 git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@42537 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e --- doc/syntax/literals.rdoc | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc') 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 %Q 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 -- cgit v1.2.3