Re: Is this a bug?

Catalin Zamfir Alexandru, DATAGRAM SRL wrote: > Hello guys, > > I've been stalking on the list for some time. Didn't have > anything to report/talk, until now. I have a code like this, maybe you guys > can reproduce it, with output buffering started: > > Echo 'something'; > > Echo 'another thing'; > > Echo 'something <br />'\; > > > > What happens is that ANYTHING that was echo'ed until that \, > will not reach the buffer. Although, this should actually be a Parse Error, > it isn't, it just echoes what was echoed after the god damned \. It took me > two hours to find this typo in the code . > > > > Can you guys reproduce the error? I can actually give you a > link to the server where this code runs. > > > The script doesn't cause a parse error Instead it throws a warning. 'PHP Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in' Don't think it's a bug. And the reason there's no syntax error is because the \ is a PHP escape character.