Re: Comments in SQR

[Nina Chou <nchou@BOOKCRAFTERS.COM>]

Personally, I think this and "#debug" solution are the most genius(inventive)
idea for it.  But the program also need some comments to explain the
blocked_lines are for block_comments, otherwise the program will lose its audit
trail for the future maintenance.

Pam Lantzy also provide the solution through Editor(UltraEdit) using the
Column_Edit to add '!' to the 1st column.   I just want to share one incidence
that I encountered regarding to '!'.   it will work if you do not have other
comment lines within the block of lines.  Otherwise SQR will stop with '!!' if
you add an '!' to a comment line (version 3 on mainframe/MVS).  I did not check
this against newer version or different platform.  Maybe others can shed more
light on this one.

Nina




Ralph Dodson <Dodmeister@AOL.COM> on 08/24/99 10:35:03 AM

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Subject:  Re: Comments in SQR




You could always surround it with a never to be executed IF statement.

e.g.

IF 1 = 2

  code you don't need

END-IF