RE: [PHP] comment followed by ?> fails to parse
| From: | Ford, Mike [LSS] | Date: | Wed, 29 May 2002 10:31:35 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] comment followed by ?> fails to parse | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos [mailto:thalis@cs.pitt.edu]
> Sent: 28 May 2002 20:21
>
> If I write a comment line with // and I include in it ?> then
> it fails to parse the rest of the page because (i'm guessing)
> the parser gets confused and goes off PHP mode.
> Is this normal? Shouldn't I be able to write literally
> ANYTHING on a comment line?
Quoting from http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.basic-syntax.comments.php:
The "one-line" comment styles actually only comment to the end
of the line or the current block of PHP code, whichever comes
first.
So this is documented behaviour.
Cheers!
Mike
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