protected function processMultiLineComments($startIndex)
	{
		$this->getChar(); // current C
		$thirdCommentString = $this->getChar();

		// kill everything up to the next */ if it's there
		if ($this->getNext('*/'))
		{
			$this->getChar(); // get *
			$this->getChar(); // get /
			$char = $this->getChar(); // get next real character

			// Now we reinsert conditional comments and YUI-style licensing comments
			if (($this->options['flaggedComments'] && $thirdCommentString === '!')
				|| ($thirdCommentString === '@')
			)
			{

				// If conditional comments or flagged comments are not the first thing in the script
				// we need to echo a and fill it with a space before moving on.
				if ($startIndex > 0)
				{
					echo $this->a;
					$this->a = " ";

					// If the comment started on a new line we let it stay on the new line
					if ($this->input[($startIndex - 1)] === "\n")
					{
						echo "\n";
					}
				}

				$endPoint = ($this->index - 1) - $startIndex;
				echo substr($this->input, $startIndex, $endPoint);

				return $char;
			}

		}
		else
		{
			$char = false;
		}

		if ($char === false)
		{
			throw new \RuntimeException('Unclosed multiline comment at position: ' . ($this->index - 2));
		}

		// if we're here c is part of the comment and therefore tossed
		if (isset($this->c))
		{
			unset($this->c);
		}

		return $char;
	}