Re: Heredoc strings

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  • Posted by jeremy (admin) Feb 23, 2009
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DerekParnell said...
mattlewis said...

I presume that the trimmed whitespace needs to be spaces. How would it deal with a tab thrown in?

Both the SPACE and TAB character are classed as a single whitespace character. Thus leading TABs are not expanded to equivalent SPACEs before trimming. It is not advisable to use TABS as leading whitespace in extended string literals.

I think we need to really think this one through. Although this ability is great, I am not sure it's the best way of going about it. Tabs and Spaces should both be alowed and the syntax is a bit cumbersome/weird, however I understand it's purpose.

Are their any other implementation ideas on this subject?

Jeremy

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