Doc #70772 [NEW]: nowdoc does not work as documented

From: teo8976 at gmail dot com Operating system: PHP version: Irrelevant Package: *General Issues Bug Type: Documentation Problem Bug description:nowdoc does not work as documented Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/language.types.string --- The example regarding newdoc syntax is broken. Test script: --------------- <?php $str = <<<'EOD' Example of string spanning multiple lines using nowdoc syntax. EOD; Expected result: ---------------- Either the script should work, or it should be replaced with a working example in the docs Actual result: -------------- Parse error: syntax error, unexpected end of file, expecting variable (T_VARIABLE) or heredoc end (T_END_HEREDOC) or ${ (T_DOLLAR_OPEN_CURLY_BRACES) or {$ (T_CURLY_OPEN) in /in/T9Wfr on line 6 The error message varies depending on the version of PHP. -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=70772&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70772&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70772&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70772&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70772&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70772&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70772&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70772&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70772&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70772&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70772&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70772&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70772&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70772&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70772&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70772&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70772&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70772&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70772&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70772&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70772&r=mysqlcfg