hi there,
this may be obscure and I'm not sure if it is a bug but I've experienced a problem with populating a variable with a HERE statement (ie. $variable = <<< EOD). As far as I was aware the variable is supposed to be populated with anything after the first EOD line and before the ending EOD; line.

This HERE statement does not work if you put a slash before a left curly brace ( \{ ) . It's fine with a right curly brace ( \} ). looking at the script below version 1 does not display the first slash, version 2 does (only because I escaped the slash first).

This seems to be a bug, so I hope this is the right place to inform you about it.

best wishes
Simon R Jones

simon@studio24.net
www.studio24.net

Configure command: './configure' '--with-gd' '--enable-track-vars' '--with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs' '--enable-sysvsem' '--enable-sysvshm' '--with-zlib' '--prefix=/usr' '--with-config-file-path=/etc/httpd/conf' '--enable-memory-limit' '--with-pgsql=/usr' '--with-db2=/usr' '--with-gdbm=/usr' '--with-ndbm=/usr' '--with-dbase' '--enable-trans-sid' '--with-xml=/usr' '--enable-debugger' '--enable-ftp' '--with-ttf' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr' '--enable-bcmath' '--with-openssl' '--enable-trans-sid' '--with-mysql=/usr' '--with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6' '--with-png-dir=/usr' '--with-imap' '--with-dom' '--with-imap-ssl' '--with-mhash=/usr' '--with-mcrypt=/usr'

example script (online at http://dev.studio24.net/test.php ):

<?

$content .= <<< EOD

<tt>
\{[A-Z0-9][A-Z0-9_]{1,}\} more text \" \ \\ \{ \} \&

</tt>

EOD;

$content2 .= <<< EOD

<tt> 
\\{[A-Z0-9][A-Z0-9_]{1,}\} more text \" \ \\ \{ \} \&
</tt>

EOD;

echo "version 1: $content<br>\n
      version 2: $content2";

?>