# Just ignore this

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-ignore-this/529583>\
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**Created:** [February 19, 2010, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-ignore-this/529583 "2010-02-19T03:04:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-ignore-this/529583/1 "2010-02-19T03:04:34Z")

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Just ignore this, I’m trying out some features.

[EMAIL=“[awberkoff@gmail.com](mailto:awberkoff@gmail.com)”]AWB

> [@](#):
>
> I do say,
> 
> > [@](#):
> >
> > this quite often.

```auto

PROGRAM Fibonacci;

VAR
  x1, x2, xc, r:real;

BEGIN
  x1:=0.0;
  x2:=1.0;
  WHILE hellfreezesover DO BEGIN
    xc:=x2+x1;
    r:=xc/x2;
    writeln(xc:30:0,r:30:28);
    x1:=x2;
    x2:=xc;
  END;
END.  

```

what does

```php
PHP

```

do?

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**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-ignore-this/529583/2 "2010-02-19T03:15:54Z")

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> [@AWB](#):
>
> what does
> 
> ```php
> PHP
> 
> ```
> 
> do?

```php

$myvar = 'Hello Teeming Millions!';
for ($i = 0; \$i < 1,000,000; \$i++)
{
    echo $myvar . "
";
}

```

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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-ignore-this/529583/3 "2010-02-19T03:51:46Z")

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```auto

void PrintPathInfo() {
	NSString* partialPath = @"~";
	
	NSString* mypath = [partialPath stringByExpandingTildeInPath];	//get expanded path as a NSString
	NSLog(@"My home folder is at %@", mypath);
	
	
	NSArray *pathbits = [mypath pathComponents]; //Chop the path NSString to bits into an NSArray
	for (NSString *el in pathbits) { //display the pieces in console
		NSLog(@"%@", el); //Using Fast Enumeration
	}	
	
}

```

color doesn’t survive the xfer.

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**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-ignore-this/529583/4 "2010-02-19T03:58:25Z")

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```php
void PrintPathInfo() {
	NSString* partialPath = @"~";
	
	NSString* mypath = [partialPath stringByExpandingTildeInPath];	//get expanded path as a NSString
	NSLog(@"My home folder is at %@", mypath);
	
	
	NSArray *pathbits = [mypath pathComponents]; //Chop the path NSString to bits into an NSArray
	for (NSString *el in pathbits) { //display the pieces in console
		NSLog(@"%@", el); //Using Fast Enumeration
	}	
	
}

```

?

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**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-ignore-this/529583/5 "2010-02-19T04:22:33Z")

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```php
PROGRAM Fibonacci;

VAR
  x1, x2, xc, r:real;

BEGIN
  x1:=0.0;
  x2:=1.0;
  WHILE hellfreezesover DO BEGIN
    xc:=x2+x1;
    r:=xc/x2;
    writeln('New ',xc:30:0,'Ratio ',r:30:28);
    x1:=x2;
    x2:=xc;
  END;
END.

```

I see, said the blind man.

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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-ignore-this/529583/6 "2010-02-19T04:24:36Z")

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> [@xash](#):
>
> ```php
> void 
> ...
> }
> 
> ```
> 
> ?

So PHP picks up some of it, but has an awful color sense.  
Plus, bonus info!, the PHP tags, unlike quote tags, get carried thru when you quote another post.