Several lines into one variable

[Eirik]

Hi,

Quick question: What's the easiest way to store several lines of information into a variable. I can of course do the following:

$information =
"Some information" .
"Some information" .
"Some information" .
"Some information" .
"Some information";

...but I'm looking for some way to get rid of the quotes, and not having to escape them in the text I'm storing. Is there any way to do this?

Thanks in advance !

[Justin Sampson]

Well, I just go like this:

$val = "some text
and more and more
";

It seems to work for me...

[Eirik]

Hi Justin,

That might work, but then I'd still have to escape the quotes, and that get get pretty boring pretty quick.

Any other suggestions...anyone?

[jrap]

You could always use single quotes (')

<?
echo $quotes = '
           "I have a pen"
           "I have two dogs"
           "I eat cheese"
           "I am a boy!"
';
?>

hope that helps

[freddydoesphp]

Rob, but then yo ucan't use variables in the string with out concatenating them in. This is where I like to use printf()


$var = sprintf('
Some text %s some "more" text and %s some more %s
so this should "show" you how it works
', $var1, $var2, $var3);