Question

This is probably a very simple question, but I just can’t figure it out. I want to define a string containing two forward slashes

$htmlcode="text//text";

From what I understand what follows after // are comments.

Question: How do create a string containing //?

Answer 1

Parsing of the language is a little bit tricky. Within a string literal, comments and other language features are not triggered (except for special characters which need to be escaped). Also, within block comments, line-comments are not valued.

$example1 = 'hello /* this is not a comment */ '; /* but this is */
$example2 = 'hello // this is not a comment '; //but this is
$example3 = "works the same with double quotes /* not a comment */ //not a comment ";

/* comment example
   $thisIsAComment
   //this does not escape the closing */