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Re: strange one [message #181949 is a reply to message #181929]

Thu, 27 June 2013 16:17

richard

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On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 21:14:25 -0400, Lew Pitcher wrote:

> 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"

thanks. I had read this about heredoc and was a tad confused on the
explanation. Your explanation clears it up.

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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
		Re: strange one By: richard on Thu, 27 June 2013 16:17

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