03-27-2009
command paste with variables
Hi.
I have an interesting problem and i couldn't find out the solution.
I have two variables in which there are a lot of lines finished by \n. I would like to concatenate this two variables into one in this format:
var1[1st line]var2[1st line]
var1[2nd line]var2[2nd line]
.
.
.
I could do this simply by command paste but it works only with two files. The problem is that I cannot create any temporary files. I can use only variables. I searched everywhere and tried everything but without succes.
Hope sbdy find a solution.
Thanks a lot.
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VAR_EXPORT(3) 1 VAR_EXPORT(3)
var_export - Outputs or returns a parsable string representation of a variable
SYNOPSIS
mixed var_export (mixed $expression, [bool $return = false])
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NOTES
Note
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var_export(3) Examples
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The above example will output:
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Example #3
Using __set_state() (since PHP 5.1.0)
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The above example will output:
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