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VMS Help DIFFERENCES, Qualifiers, /COMMENT_DELIMITER *Conan The Librarian |
/COMMENT_DELIMITER[=(character[,...])]
Ignores characters on a line to the right of (and including) a
specified comment character.
If you specify just one character, you can omit the parentheses.
Lowercase characters are automatically converted to uppercase
unless they are enclosed in quotation marks. Nonalphanumeric
characters (such as ! and ,) must be enclosed in quotation
marks. Multicharacter comment characters are not allowed. You
can specify up to 32 comment characters by typing the character
itself or one of the following keywords. (Keywords can be
abbreviated provided that the resultant keyword is not ambiguous
and has at least 2 characters; single letters are treated as
delimiters.)
Keyword Character
COLON Colon (:)
COMMA Comma (,)
EXCLAMATION Exclamation point (!)
FORM_FEED Form feed
LEFT Left bracket ([)
RIGHT Right bracket (])
SEMI_COLON Semicolon (;)
SLASH Slash (/)
SPACE Space
TAB Tab
If you specify the /COMMENT_DELIMITER qualifier, the
/IGNORE=COMMENTS qualifier is implicitly also included.
If both the uppercase and lowercase forms of a letter are to be
used as comment characters, the letter must be specified twice,
once in uppercase and once in lowercase. If you do not include
either a comment character or a keyword with the /COMMENT_
DELIMITER qualifier, the DIFFERENCES command assumes a default
comment character based on the file type. For some file types
(.COB and .FOR), the default comment characters are considered
valid delimiters only if they appear in the first column of a
line.
The following characters are the default comment delimiters for
files with the specified file types:
File Type Default Comment Character
.B2S, .B32, !
.BAS, .BLI
.CBL, .CMD ! and ;
.COB * or / in the first column
.COM, .COR !
.FOR ! anywhere and C, D, c, d in the first column
.HLP !
.MAC, .MAR ;
.R32, .REQ !
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