why does all the text get printed on the same line?

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Have I misunderstood what heredoc should do?

I read that Here document preserves the line breaks and other whitespace (including indentation) in the text. But when I run the following script,everything gets printed on the same line. Why is it so ?

<?php 
$str = <<<HDC
 This is a sample text
 Some more sample text
 Even more sample text
HDC;
echo $str;

its working. http://codepad.org/h2jSMZZY – Ashwini Agarwal Jan 18 '13 at 05:23 — Ashwini Agarwal, Jan 18 '13 at 05:23

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 18 '13 at 05:22

The output actually does contain the line breaks. However, HTML (by default) ignores line breaks.

If you want the HTML to render the line breaks, wrap it in a pre:

<pre>
<?php 
$str = <<<HDC
 This is a sample text
 Some more sample text
 Even more sample text
HDC;
echo $str;
?>
</pre>

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 18 '13 at 05:30

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Or if you cannot use <pre> because <pre> always prints in fixed width, manually insert the <br> tags.

edited Jan 18 '13 at 05:30

Joseph Silber

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answered Jan 18 '13 at 05:27

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_"Or if you cannot use because always prints in fixed width..."_ what does that mean ? – saplingPro Jan 18 '13 at 05:29
I think @saplingPro knows about the `
` tag. He's just trying to fully grok `heredoc`s. Am I right? – Joseph Silber Jan 18 '13 at 05:30

why does all the text get printed on the same line?

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