Description:
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Hello, i was posing this as a Zend Engine problem, but then i found out that other people reported the same bug, and it seems that it's not gonna be fixed soon, so since i took the time to report this bug i am sendin it to you in order to see if you can explain this in the documentation:

Other people reported this misbehaviour:
- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.basic-syntax.comments.php (20-Jan-2003 03:41)
- http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=5123&edit=2
- http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=6053&edit=2

here's my bug:
thanks..
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I am working with Regular Expressions,
and i use the follwing one:

/(.*(?>/?)>)/s

note the "?>" chars.

The regular expression is interpreted ok.. but the problem is the following..
If i comment that line,
the php engine reads it and thin i am using this as a php close tag.

if i do:

<?php
$regular_expression = "/(.*(?>/?)>)/s";
echo $regular_expression;
?>

i get printed :
/(.*(?>/?)>)/s

but... if i comment the line with the regular expression that includes "?>", :

Reproduce code:
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<?php

//$regular_expression = "/(.*(?>/?)>)/s";
$regular_expression = "/.*/s";
echo $regular_expression;

// from here on php is not code being iterpreted
echo("\n\nhello world, is this a bug?");
exit;

echo "Didn't we exit?";
//bye

?>



Expected result:
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/.*/s

hello world, is this a bug?

Actual result:
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/?)>)/s";
$regular_expression = "/.*/s";
echo $regular_expression;

// from here on php is not code being iterpreted
echo("\n\nhello world, is this a bug?");
exit;

echo "Didn't we exit?";
//bye

?>