PHP 4.0 Bug #8233: # and // don't work as comment, whereas /*..*/ do

From: stefan.peer@tiwag.co.at Operating system: Linux Kernel 2.2.14, Apache 1.3.14 PHP version: 4.0.3pl1 PHP Bug Type: Scripting Engine problem Bug description: # and // don't work as comment, whereas /*..*/ do Hi, I had a problem commenting out code fragments. The problem within the following lines is the single-line comment // # as comment seems to have the same problem whereas /* ... */ works fine. if( preg_match( "/(.*?)ELEMENT_(\d+)\{(.*?)\}((<.*?>)+)/", $template_lines[$j], $matched) ){ //preg_match("/(.*?)ELEMENT_LAST\{(.*?)\}((<.*?>)+)/", $template_lines[$j], $matched) $debug_msg .= "Matched /(.*?)ELEMENT_(\d+)\{(.*?)\}((<.*?>)+)/ within X"; $iterations = $matched[2]; break; } These lines bring up the errormessage "Parse error: parse error in includes/functions.inc on line 408", where 408 is the last line of the file. I am not sure, whether this has to do with commenting out regular expressions. By the way, I'm using Apache 1.3.14, SuSE 6.4 Linux and I've compiled php with the following switches: ./configure --with-apache=/root/apache/apache_1.3.14 --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --with-config-file-path=/usr/lib --with-pdflib=/usr/lib/libpdf.so --with-gdbm=/usr/lib/libgdbm.so --enable-ftp --enable-filepro --with-java=/usr/lib/java --with-ldap --with-openssl=/usr/local/openssl --enable-sysvsem --enable-sysvshm --enable-track-vars -- Edit Bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=8233&edit=1