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Bug #18151 Comments not being stripped.
Submitted: 2002-07-03 17:50 UTC Modified: 2002-09-15 18:02 UTC
From: polone at townnews dot com Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Scripting Engine problem
PHP Version: 4.2.0 OS: Linux 2.4.18
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2002-07-03 17:50 UTC] polone at townnews dot com 
The php -w option also strips comments outside of the PHP tags. Thus, a program like:

#!/usr/bin/php -q
<?php

    // Bye-Bye comment

    print "hello world\n";

?>

Would end up like:

<?php
  print "hello world\n"; ?>

But, this is incorrect. It should be:

#!/usr/bin/php -q
<?php
  print "hello world\n"; ?>

It appears this only happens if the first line in the file is formatted like a PHP comment. Thus,

# This is not a PHP comment!!!!
<?php

   print "hello world\n";

?>

Also strips the "# This is not a PHP comment!!!!".

Regards,

Patrick O'Lone
INN/TownNews.com
polone@townnews.com

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 [2002-07-04 03:59 UTC] sander@php.net 
No, the CLI (and possibly the CGI too) is programmed to ignore the first line of a script if it starts with #.

Anyway, php -w (latest CVS) doesn't strip comments, although it's supposed to. (ab)using this report for that issue.
 [2002-09-15 18:02 UTC] iliaa@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

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