Re: [PHP-WIN] ### symbol/character usage in code..?

Hi

         In PHP  the # is a comment  for everything on the 
line  following the #    so as all these lines start with a # the 
rest of the lines are all comments

Cheers Derek

At 6/24/2014 06:04 AM, Jacob Kruger wrote:
>Know this doesn't have too much to do with windows specific usage, but am
>working on/via windows installation of XAMPP myself, and am just wondering
>why in some new code am busy reviewing, they seem to be using sort of
>comment blocks inside code sort of like the following bit of text:
>###start something
># blah
>###end of whatever
>
>Now, yes, in python, the # symbol is the comment character, but, can't
>imagine what this is doing in PHP, and, part of my reason for asking this
>question here is that google searches relating to the # character, or even
>searches in something like an offline .chm file are impossible, due to
>it's common usage in HTML, etc...<smile>
>
>Stay well
>
>Jacob
>
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Cheers Derek

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