Is it Possible to Comment Out Blocks of Text with /*?

kbellis

The double forward slash // works great for commenting out a single line, and one line only, but is there anyway to comment out entire blocks of coded lines; e.g.,

/*

blah

blah

blah

*/

JeffH@BMG

Hi Kelly,

Per the Script Command reference:

Comments

Any lines that begin with the forward slash character (/) are considered comments and are ignored by the script processing engine. This means that you can use C or C++ style comments like // or /* at the start of your line. 

But note that this applies to a single line only, and '*/' has no meaning whatsoever (it also means that '//' is not necessary to start a comment; a single '/' will do). So no,  /* */ doesn't work across multiple lines in Global Mapper scripts.

Best regards,

~Jeff

kbellis

Thanks for your reply Jeff!

Okay, so the help file should read that you CANNOT use C or C++ style comments for multiline comments; e.g.,

Multi-line comments (informally, C style), start with /* and end with */.,

Only Single-line comments (informally, C++ style), start with // and continue until the end of the line. If the last character in a comment line is a \ the comment will continue in the next line.

So therein is another deviation from C style, Global Mapper only needs a single /