Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

here document

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.49 in modern English

Syllables: here -doc-u-ment
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A block of text included in the source code of a computer program in such a way that it is treated as a single string literal with line breaks etc. as written.

Inflected Forms

here documents (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

docstring nowdoc

Synonyms

heredoc here-text

Questions

What does here document mean?: A block of text included in the source code of a computer program in such a way that it is treated as a single string literal with line breaks etc. as written.

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