A Question with heredoc

Hi I'm writing a wrapper for some mailman archives and i'm trying to put them message into a variable as in: $body = <<<EOF text here..... EOF; But I'm getting an error because of some charactors. ^L to be specific. If the text contains a control char I get: Code: <pre> <? $test = <<<EOF line 1 ^L line 2 EOF; echo $test; ?> </pre> Error: Warning: Unexpected character in input: '' (ASCII=12) state=5 in test.html on line 6 Is there any way I can stop it complaining about it. Or is there another way I can put the the text into the string (it's done via a template file and a string substitution). The contents could be anything so I thougth heredoc would work.. Thanks in advance.. I'm not on the list so please reply to me directly. Regards Simon -- Simon Coggins (SAGE-AU Member) Email: simon@uow.edu.au Network and System Management Officer Phone: +61-2-4221-3775 Information Technology Systems (ITS) Mobile: 0408 115861 University of Wollongong, 2522, Australia Fax: +61-2-4229-1985