PHP '#' syntax? [duplicate] - php

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Found an image upload script on the net and I'm just modifying it to my needs. It contains lines like the one below that begins with an # symbol. I'm more of a javascript/jQuery guy so can someone explain what this '#' syntax is all about please?
#move_uploaded_file($_FILES[$fieldname]['tmp_name'], $uploadFilename)
or error('receiving directory insuffiecient permission', $uploadForm);
Please note I'm not asking what the above lines do, just about the functionality of the # symbol

It stops error messages, see here:
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.errorcontrol.php

It suppresses PHP errors, generally it'll be used by lazy developers as a substitute to isset()

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My company has asked me to analyse backend code for one the live websites that our company maintains. I have run into a problem. I can't quite figure what '#' is doing here in this code if(#($_SESSION['user'])){...}
I looked everywhere what this means and haven't found anything even remotely resembling this. I hope someone on this forum can help me out. Below is the entire code snippet.
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I've read many threads here about this being deprecated and tried replacing it with preg_match but I don't know php enough to fix the rest of the line.
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Please use preg_match().
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