@ueno please reopen it as @canaaerus said this is about extracting the text inside a heredoc not about reading files with heredocs and no crashing.

The bug referenced below (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?41406) is only concerned with correctly parsing files using nowdoc, but not with extracting those nowdoc strings for translation.

At least my tests with xgettext version 0.19.7 show that heredoc text is not extracted, e.g.

<?php

echo 'Test1';

echo _('Test2');

echo _(<<<TEST
Test3
TEST
);

echo <<<TEST
_(Test4)
TEST;

?>

processed with +verbatim+xgettext test.php -o test.pot -L PHP-verbatim- only extracts Test2.

This feature (Test3) would be really useful.

Hello,

First of all, thanks a lot for this great piece of software, gettext really makes handling i18n issues easier.

I would like to request that support for the here doc/now doc syntax from PHP be added in xgettext. Currently, the PHP code scanner only support the single/double quote syntax. See http://fr.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php for more information on the different ways to define strings in PHP.

As far as I can tell, here documents should already be supported in the Shell code scanner (at least bash has support for them, not sure about other shells).

Here doc/now doc is a very useful syntax when you have to deal with very long embedded texts. It really improves code readability. I'm sure a lot of web developpers would be thankful for this addition.

Please keep up the good work