Comments

A comment provides documentation within the report definition language. Comments can be:

• A sequence of characters starting with a double minus sign (--) and ending at the end of the line.

  If you begin a comment with a double minus sign (--), the comment is ended at the end of a line. To create multiple-line comments, you must specify double minus signs (--) at the beginning of each comment line.

  For example:

  -- A comment line must be on one line only
  -- But, you can have multiple-line comments

• A sequence of characters starting with slash asterisk (/*) and ending with asterisk slash (*/).

  If you begin a comment with /*, the comment is not ended until a */ is encountered. Therefore, if you want multiple-line comments, you begin a comment with /* and create lines of comments. At the end of the last line of comments, you add */. For example:

  /*  This comment line stretches over more
  than one line */

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