codeIgniter将解析器结果分配给变量

In CI, we all know that you can assign the view into a variable like:

$a = $this->load->view('theview',$data,true);

Is this possible to parser function like this:

$a = $this->parser->parse('thetemplate',$data,true);

yea, this works:

$string = $this->parser->parse('thetemplate', $data, TRUE);

the TRUE at end avoids it to be sent to the output class

See: CI Parser