Does php have a facility similar to python's stringIO? What I'm wanting to do is similar to a mail merge. IOW, I know I can create an include file like: $out = <<<EOT This is an example of $var1 and $var2. EOT; and then after assigning values to $var1 and $var2 include that file. I can later use different values for $var1 and $var2 and get a different $out with a second include. Can I someout "include" a string instead of a file? Or maybe there is some completely different way to do what I want. -- "I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, "A free field and no favor." -- Woodrow Wilson, U.S. President, 1915 Rick Pasotto rick@xxxxxxxx http://www.niof.net -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php