#23241 [Opn->Bgs]: Perl's qq~~ and q~~ -> PHP?
ID: 23241
Updated by: wez@php.net
Reported By: kitdekat_yh at yahoo dot com
-Status: Open
+Status: Bogus
Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Operating System: Win2K AdvSrv
PHP Version: 4.3.2RC1
New Comment:
PHP is not perl; we won't be implementing this syntax.
Previous Comments:
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[2003-04-16 10:07:55] kitdekat_yh at yahoo dot com
Perl has the ability to 'inline' HereDocs by using qq~~ (double
quoting) and q~~ (single quoting) a portion of text exactly like a
HereDoc does (parsing $vars while keeping nopn-escaped "s and 's as
well) without taking up entire lines for start and end tags. Also the ~
symbol can be replaced by any character( q// and qq//, etc) that you
wont be using within the string, and if you do, can be escaped to still
print it out. It also allows for multiple HereDoc conversions on a
single line, examples as follows:
echo <<< END_HERE1
remembers "quotes" and parses $vars
and 'remembers' new lines
END_HERE1;
echo join("\n", $array_list);
echo <<< END_HERE2
and continues.
END_HERE2;
can be done as follows:
echo qq~... "quotes" and $vars\n~ . join("\n", $array_list) .
qq~and ...\n~;
which allows more condensed code and, atleast i think, makes creating
complex formatted HTML easier. This is not simply another alias btw (as
mentioned in #12779) but a varying functionality that increases the
power of PHP as seen in the examples. Since HereDocs do not do the q~~
(single quote version) at all nor do they function with multiples
'inline'd either.
I feel that this will alleviate many Perl convert's problems with
formatting their pages a specific way and allow them to write however
they need it written at the moment.
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