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var_export

(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5)

var_export -- Outputs or returns a parsable string representation of a variable

Description

mixed var_export ( mixed expression [, bool return] )

This function returns structured information about the variable that is passed to this function. It is similar to var_dump() with one exception: the returned representation is valid PHP code.

You can also return the variable representation by using TRUE as second parameter to this function.

<?php
$a = array (1, 2, array ("a", "b", "c"));
var_export($a);
?>

The above example will output:

array (
  0 => 1,
  1 => 2,
  2 => 
  array (
    0 => 'a',
    1 => 'b',
    2 => 'c',
  ),
)
<?php

$b = 3.1;
$v = var_export($b, true);
echo $v;

?>

The above example will output:

3.1

See also var_dump() and print_r().

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