> You will notice > that the previous line also contains a '?>' sequence, so I'm confused > as to why this would "die" on one line but not the other? Or is this > some freak combination of comments and PHP tags? :-o 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. ---John Holmes... UCCASS - PHP Survey System http://www.bigredspark.com/survey.html -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php