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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;

Answer 1

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>