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<h4 class="subsubsection" id="Comment-Command-1">6.1.2.1 Comment Command</h4>

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<dt><code class="code">#<var class="var">anything</var>&lsaquo;<span class="r">end of line</span>&rsaquo;</code></dt>
<dd><p>A comment.  Ignore any characters from the &lsquo;<samp class="samp">#</samp>&rsquo; character up to the
next newline character.
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<p>This command is the only possibility for commenting in the intermediate
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