RE: [PHP] heredoc problem

when I copy/pasted directly from your email and tried to execute it, I can an error on line 5 too I noticed that there's a space at the end of line 5, I deleted it and it worked fine. > -----Original Message----- > From: janet@valade.com [mailto:janet@valade.com] > Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 9:02 AM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] heredoc problem > > > Can someone tell me what is wrong with the following code: > > <html> > <head><title>Testing</title></head> > <body> > <?php > $str = <<<EOD > Example of string > spanning multiple lines > using heredoc syntax. > EOD; > ?> > </body> > </html> > > 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. > > So, what's wrong. Undoubtedly something obvious to anyone except me. > > Janet > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >