Bug #13610: heredoc: any chars (even white space) after closing ";" causes error

From: rprangnell@hotmail.com Operating system: Windows98 PHP version: 4.0.6 PHP Bug Type: Scripting Engine problem Bug description: heredoc: any chars (even white space) after closing ";" causes error Having carefully searching the bugs database and drawn a blank on this( I made sure to include 'closed' and 'bogus' entries in my search!), I would like to point out that the new 'heredoc' syntax (which is GREAT) has a little bug that could prove troublesome as it is hard to spot. The bug is that you can't put anything other than the 'return' character after the semi-colon that closes the statement. Even a single white space character after the semi-colon forces a parse error. This can be a poser, especially if the user's editor can't display non-printing characters. Typically, this kind of thing won't work: $query = <<< SQL SELECT parentID FROM messages WHERE msgID = $msgID SQL; // Can't put a comment (or anything else) here! I encountered the same bug with both the PWS and the Apache ISAPI module version. -- Edit bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=13610&edit=1