Exclude text from HEREDOC

Question

I need to place long, multiline text into variable. But with 'comments', small portion of the text the shouldn't be in the result.

Pseudocode:

$var = <<<MULTILINETEXT
  Some text {//Excluded from output}
  Some text2 {//Excluded from output}
MULTILINETEXT;

$var after this:

Some text
Some text2

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Here use a reg expression to ignore the string that enclosed in between the { and }.

$var = <<<MULTILINETEXT
  Some text {//Excluded from output}
  Some text2 {//Excluded from output}
MULTILINETEXT;
$var = preg_replace("/\{[^}]+\}/", "", $var);
print_r($var);