Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_LNUMBER

[dbertovi]

Hello everyone!

As I'm complete new in PHP programming, I have one question, about error messages I'm receiving constantly.

This is the code I copied from manual (on this site):1
2 <?php
3 / Assigning a string. /
4 $str = "This is a string";
5
6 / Appending to it. /
7 $str = $str . " with some more text";

After I save it as drugi.php (with notepad.exe), I receive this error message:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_LNUMBER in C:\Apache\Apache2\htdocs\drugi.php on line 4

What is the cause of this?
I noted that whenever try to dimension arrays with sign $ this error message appeares.

?
Thx

[Kerry_Kobashi]

<?php
$str = "This is a string";

$str = $str . " with some more text";

echo $str;
?>

First, get rid of the line numbers

Second, make sure the code starts and ends with:

<?php

?>