title: Is it possible in PHP to escape newlines in strings as in C?
body: <p>In C you can continue a string literal in the next line escaping the newline character:
  <code><pre>char* p = "hello \
  new line.";</pre></code>
  ( My C is a bit rusty and this could be non 100% accurate )  </p>
  
  <p>But in php, the backslash is taking literally:
  <code><pre>$p = "hello \
  new line.";</pre></code></p>
  
  <p>I.E. the backslash character forms part of the string.
  Is there a way to get the C behavior in PHP in this case?</p>