php qq() equivilent?

[Howard Stern]

is there an equivilent to perls qq() function?

print qq(some text with unescaped quotes " here " );

thanks

[scoutt]

I am not sure if there is. can you explain this one to me though.

# Double quotes: qq() 
$firstVar = 1; 
$secondVar = qq($firstVar); 
print "with qq() secondVar = $secondVar\n"; 

Prints: with qq() secondVar = 1

what exactly is the qq() doing??? I don't see it doing anything.

[Howard Stern]

well, qq() will basically just let you specify a string without escaping quotes.

for example:

$this = "and god said \" let there be light \"";
$that = qq(and god said "let there be light");

$this and $that both == and god said "let there be light"

[scoutt]

thanks, that makes more since. the only thing I can think of is stripslashes(). other than that I don't know. can't you use single quotes.