| Re: syntax error or notepad++ error? [message #182824 is a reply to message #182823] |
Mon, 16 September 2013 17:47   |
Jerry Stuckle
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On 9/16/2013 1:14 PM, richard wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 11:12:22 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
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>> On 9/16/2013 9:20 AM, richard wrote:
>>> All is well with matching divisions in notepad++ until I enter this code:
>>>
>>> echo "<div class='bcol2'>";
>>> echo "* ".$number." *<br />";
>>> echo '<a
>>> href="http://mroldies.net/index2.php?year='.$year.'&nid='.$number.'">';
>>> echo $vid[0];
>>> echo "</a>";
>>> echo "<br />";
>>> echo $vid[1];
>>> echo "<br />";
>>> echo $vid[3];
>>> echo" </div>\n";
>>>
>>> $number++;
>>>
>>> Notepad++ matches the opening division with the very last closing division
>>> tag.
>>> Not the closing tag it is supposed to pair with.
>>> Without this code, the pairs match.
>>>
>>> So where's the syntax issue at?
>>>
>>> I made sure all tags matched properly before including the code.
>>>
>>
>> There's a limit as to how much editors can interpret the code. For
>> instance, they can't properly parse something like:
>>
>> <?php if ($i == 3)
>> echo "<div class='foo'\n";
>> ?>
>>
>> because $i is only meaningful during the execution of the page.
>>
>> They also don't handle things like:
>>
>> echo "<";
>> echo "div ";
>> echo "class='foo'";
>> echo ">\n";
>>
>> Even though this generates perfectly valid HTML (I know you wouldn't
>> write it like this, but it's an example).
>>
>
> Actually, notepad++ does accept all you listed except the < and > signs.
>
Sure, it will *ACCEPT* it - but it will not *PROCESS* it properly.
>
>> As a result, when you mix things like regular html and html generated by
>> php (or any other language), editors are bound to get confused at some
>> point in time. It's just a limit of what editors can do.
>>
>> The best way is to run the generated page through the HTML validator, as
>> Denis suggested.
>
> I did and it did not find anyhting out of whack.
>
Then your code is fine.
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