On Wednesday 22 December 2004 08:18, John Holmes wrote:

> It is, I guess.
>
> <?php
>
> $a = ' ?> ';
> $b = ' ?> ';
>
> ?>
>
> will work just fine. If you try to comment out either line, though, the PHP
> processing will end at the ?> and spit out the rest as plain text. So, text
> can have as many ?> as you want and the only issue comes when you try to
> comment one of them out.

I'm sure it must be documented behaviour, because my syntax highlighting 
editor seems to be aware of it. When I stick // in front of $a, the colour 
for comments stop just before the ?>. And a quick check of the manual 
confirms that it is documented behaviour. 

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