Re: heredoc problem

At 23:02 02.03.2003, janet@valade.com said: --------------------[snip]-------------------- >Can someone tell me what is wrong with the following code: > ><?php $str = << >This is code straight out of the PHP manual. I get the error: >Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_SL in testhere.php on line 5 > >I looked up T_SL and it is a token representing << so that means it just >doesn't get the <<<. Why not? I've tried all the combinations of spaces and >no space in that line that I can think of. --------------------[snip]-------------------- The correct heredoc syntax: $text = <<<EOT This is all a heredoc text EOT; Note: the heredoc delimiter 1) must not be indented 2) must be all lone on a single line (except an optional terminating semicolon) -- >O Ernest E. Vogelsinger (\) ICQ #13394035 ^ http://www.vogelsinger.at/