unexpected character removed to avoid PHP syntax error

starting a dotcloud application with the default php-mysql-stack ended up in a 500 server error caused by an unexpected character:
FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'if' (T_IF) in /home/dotcloud/rsync-123456789/app/index.php on line 4" while reading response header from upstream, ...

removing this invalid character from the index.php will increase the customer satisfaction ;)