Re: print vs heredoc

> Hi, again!! I thought I saw this post once already. > I'm looking for opinions as to which is better/faster, print or heredoc. Well, like the guy said before, it sounds like you've pretty much already made up your mind. I don't use heredocs everywhere, but when I have a fairly large block of html with a small number of straight variable substitutions (no conditionals, etc.), I sometimes find heredocs to be convenient, and a lot easier to read in the source. <reformatted style="wrapped"> > print makes the code layout look nice Well, one of the purposes of a heredoc is to get the code out of the content, yielding a cleaner, more readable layout. If that's not what you're getting, you probably don't want to use heredocs. > and eazy to debug, If there's something you need to debug, heredocs are possibly not indicated. > where heredoc > IS faster but makes the code look like a nightmare with everything > jammed against the left side of the code. Not sure what you're saying. When I use heredocs, that is not the result, by any stretch of the imagination. (Well, I'm not sure about the speed business.) > I'm pretty picky about what looks good and heredoc is a nightmare of > horrors... </reformatted> If that's the results you're getting, I'd say heredoc is probably not appropriate for what you're trying to do. -- Joel Rees, programmer, Kansai Systems Group Altech Corporation (Alpsgiken), Osaka, Japan http://www.alpsgiken.co.jp