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From   "Sergiy Radyakin" <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   st: Stata comments
Date   Thu, 1 May 2008 14:42:38 -0400

Hi there,

I have a question regarding the use of comments in Stata programs.

The two possibilities to comment out a line of code are to put a "*"
or "//" in the beginning of a line.

The manual (e.g. online here: http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?comments) says:

" * indicates that the line is to be ignored."
  and
"// indicates that the rest of the line is to be ignored."

Both definitions are using the concept of a "line". I would like to
double-check, what is really meant by "line" in this context?

Thank you, Sergiy Radyakin
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