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Re: strange one [message #181929 is a reply to message #181927]

Tue, 25 June 2013 01:14

Lew Pitcher
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On Monday 24 June 2013 21:02, in comp.lang.php, sheldonlg(at)thevillages(dot)net
wrote:

> My daughter also does php. She has to fix up some awful code. She came
> across something that I have never seen before. It goes something like
> this:
>
> $a .= <<<BLAH;
>
> What is that <<< ?

It is the start of a "heredoc"
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.strin g.syntax.heredoc

Specifically, the word immediately adjacent to the right of the <<< (in your
case, the word BLAH) is taken as a sentinal, and all lines between the line
containing the start of the heredoc (the <<<BLAH line) and the first line
that contains the sentinal word are treated like a single string.

Thus
<<<BLAH
this is a test
one two three
four five
six
BLAH;

is treated as a single string consisting of
"this is a test\none two three\nfourfive\nsix\n"

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Lew Pitcher
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		strange one By: Shelly[1] on Tue, 25 June 2013 01:02
		Re: strange one By: Scott Johnson on Tue, 25 June 2013 01:10
		Re: strange one By: Lew Pitcher on Tue, 25 June 2013 01:14
		Re: strange one By: Shelly[1] on Tue, 25 June 2013 01:18
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