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Something like $var .= qq~Text~; (from Perl) in PHP?

hi,

i'm a seasonal perl coder. i'm sooo use to this style of conding in Perl :

$var .=qq~ "put whatever output here" without worrying to escape the "inverted coma" ~;
$var .=qq~ and i really miss this function now.. nowhere to find in PHP :( ~;

and just print $var; wherever i want for the output, and it will look like this :

"put whatever output here" without worrying to escape the "inverted coma" and i really miss this function now.. nowhere to find in PHP :(

question : how can i possibly do this with PHP? echo<<<code "something" code; can accomplish this, but it doesn't assign it to variable like qq does.

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DingDang

ASKER

thats quite like it, but it seems can be use with $var = and not $var .= (dot equal). .= enable me to collect and add values into the existing variable along the way, so at the end i can just puke the $var with all collected values.

that is why my example use $var .= 2 times.

DingDang

ASKER

sorry my mistake, it should have thre < instead of my typo of two.

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You can concatenate additional string data to a var using heredoc syntax.

<?php
 
$myVar = '';
 
$myVar .= <<<EOD
<p class="highlight">One paragraph</p>
EOD;
 
$myVar .= '<p>Another paragraph</p>';
 
$myVar .= <<<EOD
<p class="highlight">Two paragraph</p>
EOD;
 
echo $myVar;
 
?>

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