Symfony: Parse Error: syntax error, unexpected 'security' (T_STRING), expecting ']'

Question

I am working with Symfony, and I am trying to include a service using services.yml, and I am getting this error:

Parse Error: syntax error, unexpected 'security' (T_STRING), expecting ']'

Everything seems fine. I checked the service I created, and there's nothing wrong with it.

@rtfm Probably not the best duplicate since the syntax error was in YAML not PHP. I voted to close for the "simple typographical error" reason — Paul, Feb 13 '18 at 23:20
Next time try a little before asking here. And if you really need to ask, put a piece of code, otherwise you are asking us to do magic. — Elias Soares, Feb 13 '18 at 23:20

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 13 '18 at 23:16

The problem was inside the services.yml file itself:

    activity_listener\:
          class: AppBundle\Listener\ActivityListener
          arguments: 
                 ['@security.token_storage']

It is hard to notice at first. I put a \ at the end of activity_listener, and when that became part of PHP, it neutralized the ' that followed.

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