wp-includes/class-json.php:603reduce a string by removing leading and trailing comments and whitespace
$strstring function reduce_string($str) { _deprecated_function( __METHOD__, '5.3.0', 'The PHP native JSON extension' ); $str = preg_replace(array( // eliminate single line comments in '// ...' form '#^\s*//(.+)$#m', // eliminate multi-line comments in '/* ... */' form, at start of string '#^\s*/\*(.+)\*/#Us', // eliminate multi-line comments in '/* ... */' form, at end of string '#/\*(.+)\*/\s*$#Us' ), '', $str); // eliminate extraneous space return trim($str); }Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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