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Bug #33081 T_OPEN_TAG eats whitespace
Submitted: 2005-05-20 15:53 UTC Modified: 2005-05-20 16:58 UTC
From: jaa at interflow dot dk Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Scripting Engine problem
PHP Version: 5.0.4 OS: FreeBSD
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2005-05-20 15:53 UTC] jaa at interflow dot dk
Description:
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The PHP tokenizer includes the first whitespace character after the opening php tag as a part of the opening tag. That is, the following code with one whitespace in between will be tokenized into two tokens, a start tag and a closing tag:
<?php ?>

While with two whitespaces in between will be tokenized into three tokens, an opening tag including one space character, a whitespace token with one space character and a closing tag:
<?php  ?>

I hope the whitespace doesn't get lost when I submit this ;-)

Reproduce code:
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<?php
$source = "<?php ?>";
$tokens = token_get_all($source);
if($tokens[1][0] == T_WHITESPACE) {
  print "Whitespace found\n";
} else {
  print "Whitespace not found\n";
}
?>


Expected result:
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Whitespace found

Actual result:
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Whitespace not found

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 [2005-05-20 16:59 UTC] derick@php.net
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a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
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