lass="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Return type:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first last">string</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>This method works exactly like <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">parse()</span></code>, only it accepts
the template as a string instead of loading a view file.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="CI_Parser::set_delimiters">
<code class="descname">set_delimiters</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="optional">[</span><em>$