Posted by Andy Hassall on 07/07/06 20:11

On 7 Jul 2006 13:02:11 -0700, "julian_m" <julianmaisano@gmail.com> wrote:

>Alvaro G. Vicario wrote:
>
>> According to manual:
>>
>> The "one-line" comment styles only comment to the end of the line or the
>> current block of PHP code, whichever comes first. This means that HTML code
>> after // ... ?> or # ... ?> WILL be printed: ?> breaks out of PHP mode and
>> returns to HTML mode, and // or # cannot influence that.
>>
>> It sounds like the logical option to me.
>
>I didn't know that, now I understand how it works, although IMO, the
>line I commented was not de end of the current block of PHP:
>
>//$res= preg_replace('#<\s*(p|span|li|ul|ol)\s+.*?>#si', '<\1>',$str);
>
>Note that ?> is a string there.

Ah, but it isn't in a string, because it's in a comment.

(Sounds circular, but actually it's not).

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