Hi, I had a problem commenting out code fragments.
The problem within the following lines is the single-line comment //
# as comment seems to have the same problem whereas /* ... */ works fine.

if( preg_match( "/(.*?)ELEMENT_(\d+)\{(.*?)\}((<.*?>)+)/", $template_lines[$j], $matched) ){ 
    //preg_match("/(.*?)ELEMENT_LAST\{(.*?)\}((<.*?>)+)/", $template_lines[$j], $matched)
    $debug_msg .= "Matched /(.*?)ELEMENT_(\d+)\{(.*?)\}((<.*?>)+)/ within X";
    $iterations = $matched[2];
    break;
}
These lines bring up the errormessage "Parse error: parse error in includes/functions.inc on line 408", where 408 is the last line of the file.

I am not sure, whether this has to do with commenting out regular expressions.
By the way, I'm using Apache 1.3.14, SuSE 6.4 Linux and I've compiled php with the following switches:
./configure --with-apache=/root/apache/apache_1.3.14 
                 --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql 
                 --with-config-file-path=/usr/lib 
                 --with-pdflib=/usr/lib/libpdf.so 
                 --with-gdbm=/usr/lib/libgdbm.so 
                --enable-ftp 
                --enable-filepro 
                --with-java=/usr/lib/java 
                --with-ldap 
                --with-openssl=/usr/local/openssl 
                --enable-sysvsem 
                --enable-sysvshm 
                --enable-track-vars