What does the following code in an RTF table cell actually do (if@cell:position()...)?

Summary:

Hi,

I wondering if someone can explain to me what the following code might do. I found it in an BIP RTF report within a table cell. The code was introduced beside other code in this cell. Here the code:

<?if@cell:position()=1 ?><?end if?>

The strange thing is, that the if / endif doesn't contain anything else. But when I remove this code, I get a java parser error. (Arry index out of bounds exception. Index 6 out of bounds …..) The Index 6 could refer to the number of columns the table got (but this is just a guess).

I would expect at least that the above code does something between if / endif tags to become somehow active.