What does <<<END mean in PHP?
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<p>I am trying to grok the use of END in the following code:</p>

<pre><code>$javascript_autocomplete_text = &lt;&lt;&lt;END
&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
    function split(val) {
        return val.split('\\n');
    }
&lt;/script&gt;
</code></pre>
