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Bug #8233 # and // don't work as comment, whereas /*..*/ do
Submitted: 2000-12-13 10:30 UTC Modified: 2000-12-13 15:34 UTC
From: stefan dot peer at tiwag dot co dot at Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Scripting Engine problem
PHP Version: 4.0.3pl1 OS: Linux Kernel 2.2.14, Apache 1.3.
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2000-12-13 10:30 UTC] stefan dot peer at tiwag dot co dot at
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

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 [2000-12-13 14:22 UTC] jmoore@php.net
Note from Chris Newbill <cnewbill@onewest.net>
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I don't have the ability to update bugs, but I can duplicate this problem.

If you escape ?> in your commented line it should work fine.  ie \?\>

You can reproduce this with the following simple script. (it only happens in
logical blocks.)

<?php

if (true) {
// ?>
}

?>

By contrast this script (outside of a logical block)

<?php
//?>
?>

Would actually print "?>" to the screen

Chris

 [2000-12-13 15:34 UTC] joey@php.net
http://www.php.net/manual/language.basic-syntax.comments.php
The "one-line" comment styles actually only comment to the
end of the line or the current block of PHP code, whichever
comes first.

The parser sees ?> as the end of the block of PHP code.
The function call is not being interpreted, so the engine
does not know what context it is running under.
 
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