Escape character in erb file

Question

I am trying to include an erb file in puppet. But the file consists of lines like these:

<%@ taglib prefix="ww" uri="webwork" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="ui" uri="webwork" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="aui" uri="webwork" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="page" uri="sitemesh-page" %>

When I run puppet, this is showing a syntax error that says
'@ ' is not allowed as an instance variable name.

How can I escape this character @?

There's no way to "escape" it in this context, it's just invalid Ruby syntax. What are you trying to do? — Rein Henrichs, Dec 13 '17 at 05:48
It would be helpful to also include what the rendered file should look like instead of just what an attempted template looks like. — Matthew Schuchard, Dec 13 '17 at 13:30

Alex Harvey · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-13T08:46:41.340

Your question is basically answered here already: How do I escape the ERB tag in ERB.

You can't escape the @ character per se; you need to "escape" the ERB tags, by using the sequence <%% to indicate that you want the literal string <%.

So, change your ERB code to:

<%%@ taglib prefix="ww" uri="webwork" %>
<%%@ taglib prefix="ui" uri="webwork" %>
<%%@ taglib prefix="aui" uri="webwork" %>
<%%@ taglib prefix="page" uri="sitemesh-page" %>

Escape character in erb file

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