How to output this string?

Question

I'm new to php and I need to assign these two strings to variables and echo them exactly as seen below:

String 1:

<div class='annoying_string' id="garbage">Programming & PHP rules \\ must try</div>

String 2:

(?:(?:\r\n)?"[ \t]")*(?:(?:(?:'[^()<>@,;:\\".\'[\]' \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t]

I apologize in advance as I'm sure this question's aspects have all been answered multiple times - I did see quite a number of related articles, and I read about escaping with backslashes and stuff but in this string there are "s, 's, \s, practically everything and I fail to see how I can 'escape' all of them...

What have you tried so far? What has worked? What hasn’t? Where are you stuck? — Raphael Schweikert, Jun 12 '18 at 15:48
You might look into [heredoc](http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.syntax.heredoc) syntax — Patrick Q, Jun 12 '18 at 15:50
Possible duplicate of [How can I echo HTML in PHP?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1100354/how-can-i-echo-html-in-php) — USER249, Jun 12 '18 at 15:54

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 12 '18 at 15:51

Instead of messing around with escaping, it may be much simpler to use a nowdoc:

$string1 = <<<'EOD'
<div class='annoying_string' id="garbage">Programming & PHP rules \\ must try</div>
EOD;

$string2 = <<<'EOD'
(?:(?:\r\n)?"[ \t]")*(?:(?:(?:'[^()<>@,;:\\".\'[\]' \000-\031]+(?:(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t]
EOD;

How to output this string?

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