Laravel Artisan Tinker: The buffer Command

The buffer command is useful when entering multi-line expressions. It can be used at any time to view the contents of the buffer when entering multi-line expressions without interrupting the expression input. The following example sessions demonstrates the usage of the buffer command:

 1>>> function longFunction() {
 2... // Some comment
 3... // More comments
 4...
 5... // multi-line
 6... // expression
 7... buffer
 80: function longFunction() {
 91: // Some comment
102: // More comments
113: // multi-line
124: // expression
13... return "hello";
14... }
15=> null
16>>> longFunction();
17=> "hello"
18>>>

The --clear option can be supplied to the buffer command to clear the contents of the current buffer.

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