Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62175&edit=1
ID: 62175 Updated by: johan...@php.net Reported by: iam4webwork at hotmail dot com Summary: single quotes vs double quotes give different results with token_get_all -Status: Open +Status: Not a bug Type: Bug Package: Scripting Engine problem PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-05-29 00:54:29] anon at anon dot anon You forgot to escape the $, so the variable got substituted into the string before tokens_get_all even saw it. Should be: $tokens = token_get_all("<?php \"{\$bar}\";"); ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-05-29 00:23:26] iam4webwork at hotmail dot com Description: ------------ $tokens = token_get_all('<?php "{$bar}";'); vs. $tokens = token_get_all("<?php \"{$bar}\";"); Test script: --------------- $tokens = token_get_all('<?php "{$bar}";'); foreach ($tokens as $token) if (is_array($token)) print token_name($token[0]) ."\n"; echo '<P>'; $bar = 'bar'; // to avoid error notice $tokens = token_get_all("<?php \"{$bar}\";"); foreach ($tokens as $token) if (is_array($token)) print token_name($token[0]) ."\n"; Expected result: ---------------- T_OPEN_TAG T_CURLY_OPEN T_VARIABLE T_OPEN_TAG T_CURLY_OPEN T_VARIABLE Actual result: -------------- T_OPEN_TAG T_CURLY_OPEN T_VARIABLE in the 2nd case got this instead: T_OPEN_TAG T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62175&edit=1