note 59248 added to language.types.string

Use caution when you need white space at the end of a heredoc. Not only is the mandatory final newline before the terminating symbol stripped, but an immediately preceding newline or space character is also stripped. For example, in the following, the final space character (indicated by \s -- that is, the "\s" is not literally in the text, but is only used to indicate the space character) is stripped: $string = <<<EOT this is a string with a terminating space\s EOT; In the following, there will only be a single newline at the end of the string, even though two are shown in the text: $string = <<<EOT this is a string that must be followed by a single newline EOT; ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+59248 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59248&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59248&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59248&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59248&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59248&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: already in docs -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59248&report=yes&reason=already+in+docs Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59248&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+59248&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php