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

Hi

        In PHP  the # is a comment  for everything on the line  following the #    so as all these lines start with a # the rest of the lines are all comments

Cheers Derek At 6/24/2014 06:04 AM, Jacob Kruger 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

Cheers Derek

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