title: Convert PHP closing tag into comment
body: <p>One of the lines in my script contains a PHP closing tag inside a string. Under normal operation this does not cause a problem, but I need to comment out the line.</p>
  
  <p>I have tried to comment out this line with <code>//</code>, <code>/*</code> <code>*/</code> and <code>#</code> but none of them work, the parser considers closing tag to be an actual closing tag.</p>
  
  <p>Here is the line in question:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$string = preg_replace('#&lt;br\s*/?&gt;(?:\s*&lt;br\s*/?&gt;)+#i', '&lt;br /&gt;', $string);
  //                              ^^             ^^
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What can I do to comment out the above line?</p>