what is the meaning of the following construct

From: Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 08:41:35 +0000
Subject: what is the meaning of the following construct
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in scripts/pearcmd.php I could see the following piece of code at the begining(at the second line) if ('@include_path@' != '@'.'include_path'.'@') { ini_set('include_path', '@include_path@'); } I wrote a small php page test.php and invoked the same as pearcmd.php is invoked from pear shell script. It never gets in to the if block. what is the use of putting @ before and after some constant(may or maynot be set)? Putting @ at the beginning suppresses error messages. What is the use of putting at the end. With regards Kamesh Jayachandran

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