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Re: st: Stata comments


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Stata comments
Date   Thu, 1 May 2008 20:11:07 +0100 (BST)

--- Sergiy Radyakin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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?

that is determined by the -#delimit- command, see: -help #delimit-, but
by default a line ends with a carriage return.

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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