Re: debugging

Rasmus, You must think me quite foolish! ( or perhaps, having read other posts of mine, you know that I am quite foolish) <wink> If my reply did help clarify the situation, I am quite sorry. I was not attempting to state what behavior I would like to see from the parser - I was trying to illustrate what the parser would do when it encountered a missing delimiter. Zak At 10:43 AM 6/22/00 -0700, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

Any missing delimiter will cause an error. I usually find that with quotes and parenthesis there is another matching delimiter a line or two below the missing delimiter. In cases like this, the parser catches the missing delimiter as soon as it encounters the messed up syntax. For Example: <? $question = "Hey, how are you doing?; $answer = "Fine, how are you";

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// Error caught here ?> The parser should complain that there is a syntax error on line 3. As soon as it encountered the first quote on that line, it knows that there is a problem because there is no semicolon to end the line. And it does. <?php $question = "Hey, how are you doing?; $answer = "Fine, how are you"; // Test ?> The above script will give you a parse error on line 3. -Rasmus

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