note 39364 added to function.var-export

And here's yet another version! This one escapes singlequote and backslash correctly and uses two spaces instead of tabs to indent the output. It's output is, as far as I can see, identical to that of the native function. It's based on the one by Alonso Andres below, but I removed a few variables to make it as lean as possible. <?php function var_export() { $args = func_get_args(); $indent = (isset($args[2])) ? $args[2] : ''; if (is_array($args[0])) { $output = 'array ('."\n"; foreach ($args[0] as $k => $v) { if (is_numeric($k)) $output .= $indent.' '.$k.' => '; else $output .= $indent.' \''.str_replace('\'', '\\\'', str_replace('\\', '\\\\', $k)).'\' => '; if (is_array($v)) $output .= var_export($v, true, $indent.' '); else { if (gettype($v) != 'string' && !empty($v)) $output .= $v.','."\n"; else $output .= '\''.str_replace('\'', '\\\'', str_replace('\\', '\\\\', $v)).'\','."\n"; } } $output .= ($indent != '') ? $indent.'),'."\n" : ')'; } else $output = $args[0]; if ($args[1] == true) return $output; else echo $output; } ?> ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.var-export.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+39364 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+39364&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+39364&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php