Sometimes in PHP when I need to assign a large string literal to a variable, I break the quoted string into multiple lines so it can be read without scrolling 300 characters to the right. My problem is that PHP includes the new-line in the actual string when it is rendered in the application. Is there any way to escape the new line or is there a better way of expressing a string literal on multiple lines? I’m aware that I could use concatenation, but I was hoping for a more elegant solution.
Running on Debian if it matters.
On large string i prefer to use the heredoc style, also you can see a couple alternatives in the PHP Documentation about Strings