Posted by Rik on 03/05/07 12:49

Rik <luiheidsgoeroe@hotmail.com> wrote:

> <andy.z@blueyonder.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm writing a PHP line to the foot of a file using another language. =
my
>> problem is I'm not sure how to write it so that the quotes (both sing=
le
>> and double) are corret for PHP to process.
>>
>> The language I'm writing the PHP line with uses single quotes for a =

>> print
>> statement.
>>
>> Therefore the line I want to write is (reducing to a single array
>> element to simplify):
>>
>> $myArray =3D ( "Quote" =3D> "It's time, "he said."" );
>>
>> As you can see the quotes are complex already - but this line must be=

>> written from another language enclosed in single quotes as:
>>
>> print '$myArray =3D ( "Quote" =3D> "It's time, "he said."" );'
>>
>> So - my question is - how on earth do I escape such a thing?
>>
>>
>> Can anyone help please?
>
>
> heredoc?
> print '$myArray =3D ( "Quote" =3D> <<<HEREDOC
> It's time, "he said."
> HEREDOC
> );'

Offcourse, the single ' probably has to be escaped for your own language=
:

print '$myArray =3D ( "Quote" =3D> <<<HEREDOC
It\'s time, "he said."
HEREDOC
);'
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