in reply to Self-printing program
Search Google for quines. Here's the Wikipedia article.
Update: The key to understand how your program works is the printf documentation. Here's the content of the $body variable:
$body = %c%s%c; printf($body,34,$body,34);
And now let's see what the printf invocation below does:
printf($body,34,$body,34);
The first argument, $body, is the format string. The following arguments, 34, $body, 34 will be interpolated according to format conventions. Second and fourth arguments (34 and 34) are treated as ascii character codes and the corresponding character, double-quotes, will be interpolated in the place of %c's. Third argument of printf will be interpolated as a string in the place of the %s. Therefore, the output will be equivalent to the concatenation of the following strings:
' $body = ' . chr(34) . $body . chr(34) . '; printf($body,34,$body,34); '
Try printing that and you'll see
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