Re: Constants in strings

From:	Pete Ford	Date:	Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:38:47 +0000
Subject:	Re: Constants in strings
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On 06/07/11 17:33, Robert Williams wrote:

Where I've made most use of heredocs is when I want to do nothing but define a bunch of long strings in one file.

I find the most useful thing about heredocs is that they don't care about quotation marks, so I often use them for SQL statements where I might have a mixture of ' and " eg. $sql =<<<EoSQL SELECT

    foo AS "Foo"

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