(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5)
var_export -- Outputs or returns a parsable string representation of a variableThis 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.
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The above example will output:
array ( 0 => 1, 1 => 2, 2 => array ( 0 => 'a', 1 => 'b', 2 => 'c', ), ) |
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The above example will output:
3.1 |
See also var_dump() and print_r().