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It is also possible to use variables as comments. This can be useful to conditionally prevent commands being executed: @echo off setlocal if /i "%~1"=="update" (set _skip=) Else (set _skip=REM) %_skip% copy update.dat %_skip% echo Update applied ... When using the ab...

The batch file format does not have a block comment syntax, but there is an easy workaround for this. Normally each line of a batch file is read and then executed by the parser, but a goto statement can be used to jump past a block of plain text (which can be used as a block comment): @echo off ...

#;(define (commented-out-function x) (print (string-append "This entire " "s-expression is commented out!")))

Everything between /* and */ is commented. void main() { for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) { /* This is commented, and will not affect code */ print('hello ${i + 1}'); } }

Comments are programmer-readable annotations that are ignored at runtime. Their purpose is to make source code easier to understand. Single line comments The # character is used to add single line comments. #!/usr/bin/ruby -w # This is a single line comment. puts "Hello World!" Whe...

# This comment occupies a whole line - some item # This comment succeeds content of a line - http://example.com/#nocomment - "This # does not introduce a comment." - | This is a block scalar. A # inside it does not introduce a comment. # unless it is less indented than th...

The first interesting thing to know is how to write comments. In VB .NET, you write a comment by writing an apostrophe ' or writing REM. This means the rest of the line will not be taken into account by the compiler. 'This entire line is a comment Dim x As Integer = 0 'This comment is here to say...

Comments are used to explain code when the basic code itself isn't clear. Python ignores comments, and so will not execute code in there, or raise syntax errors for plain english sentences. Single-line comments begin with the hash character (#) and are terminated by the end of line. Single lin...

Transact-SQL supports two forms of comment writing. Comments are ignored by the database engine, and are meant for people to read. Comments are preceded by -- and are ignored until a new line is encountered: -- This is a comment SELECT * FROM MyTable -- This is another comment WHERE Id = 1; ...

Comments in Tcl are best thought of as another command. A comment consists of a # followed by any number of characters up to the next newline. A comment can appear wherever a command can be placed. # this is a valid comment proc hello { } { # the next comment needs the ; before it to indicat...

Due to the way the Tcl language parser works, braces in the code must be properly matched. This includes the braces in comments. proc hw {} { # this { code will fail puts {hello world} } A missing close-brace: possible unbalanced brace in comment error will be thrown. proc hw {} { ...

VB 14.0 introduces the ability to add comments after implicit line continuation. Dim number = From c As Char 'Comment In "dj58kwd92n4" 'Comment Where Char.IsNumber(c) 'Comment Select c 'Comment

Inline display elements, usually such as span or a, will include up to one white-space character before and after them in the document. In order to avoid very long lines in the markup (that are hard to read) and unintentional white-space (which affects formatting), the white-space can be commented o...

Comments in Sass vs. Scss are largely similar, except when multi-lines are concerned. SASS multi-lines are indentation-sensitive, while SCSS relies on comment terminators. Single-Line Comment style.scss // Just this line will be commented! h1 { color: red; } style.sass // Exactly the same ...

To comment on power scripts by prepending the line using the # (hash) symbol # This is a comment in powershell Get-ChildItem You can also have multi-line comments using <# and #> at the beginning and end of the comment respectively. <# This is a multi-line comment #> Get-Chil...

Rust provides two types of documentation comments: inner documentation comments and outer documentation comments. Examples of each are provided below. Inner Documentation Comments mod foo { //! Inner documentation comments go *inside* an item (e.g. a module or a //! struct). They use th...

In C, multi-line comments, /* and */, do not nest. If you annotate a block of code or function using this style of comment: /* * max(): Finds the largest integer in an array and returns it. * If the array length is less than 1, the result is undefined. * arr: The array of integers to search....

The modifier that allows using whitespace inside some parts of the pattern to format it for better readability and to allow comments starting with #: /(?x)^ # start of string (?=\D*\d) # the string should contain at least 1 digit (?!\d+$) # the string cannot consist of digi...

To locate comments in BeautifulSoup, use the text (or string in the recent versions) argument checking the type to be Comment: from bs4 import BeautifulSoup from bs4 import Comment data = """ <html> <body> <div> <!-- desired text --&gt...

Using comments in your projects is a handy way of leaving explanations of your design choices, and should aim to make your (or someone else's) life easier when maintaining or adding to the code. There are a two ways of adding a comment to your code. Single line comments Any text placed after // w...