Re: ### symbol/character usage in code..?

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 6:04 AM, Jacob Kruger <jacob@blindza.co.za> wrote: > Know this doesn't have too much to do with windows specific usage, but am > working on/via windows installation of XAMPP myself, and am just wondering > why in some new code am busy reviewing, they seem to be using sort of > comment blocks inside code sort of like the following bit of text: > ###start something > # blah > ###end of whatever > > Now, yes, in python, the # symbol is the comment character, but, can't > imagine what this is doing in PHP, and, part of my reason for asking this > question here is that google searches relating to the # character, or even > searches in something like an offline .chm file are impossible, due to > it's common usage in HTML, etc...<smile> > > Stay well > > Jacob > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > http://www.php.net//manual/en/language.basic-syntax.comments.php It is a one line comment just like python.