Error during installation

[dadyzang]

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in E:\xampp\htdocs\espocrm\index.php on line 32

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in E:\xampp\htdocs\espocrm\index.php on line 32

Parse error: parse error in E:\xampp\htdocs\espocrm\index.php on line 32

[Maximus]

Hello,
please provide more information to let us reproduce this error (e.g. on what installation step the error occurs?, etc.).

[dadyzang]

The program refuse to install at the first step. This message appear when i was trying to install

[Maximus]

Please provide this file \xampp\htdocs\espocrm\index.php.

[tarasm]

it seems like you are using an old version of PHP. Please upgrade it at least to PHP 7.1. Recommended version is PHP 7.3.