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SQL Comment Syntax
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<p><b><a href="syntax/comment-syntax.html">comment-syntax:</a></b>
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<p>Comments are not SQL commands, but can occur within the text of
SQL queries passed to <a href="c3ref/prepare.html">sqlite3_prepare_v2()</a> and related interfaces.
Comments are treated as whitespace by the parser.
Comments can begin anywhere whitespace
can be found, including inside expressions that span multiple lines.
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<p>SQL comments begin with two consecutive "-" characters (ASCII 0x2d)
and extend up to and including the next newline character (ASCII 0x0a)
or until the end of input, whichever comes first.</p>
<p>C-style comments begin
with "/*" and extend up to and including the next "*/" character pair
or until the end of input, whichever comes first. C-style comments
can span multiple lines. </p>
<p>Comments can appear anywhere whitespace can occur,
including inside expressions and in the middle of other SQL statements.
Comments do not nest.
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<p align="center"><small><i>This page last modified on <a href="https://sqlite.org/docsrc/honeypot" id="mtimelink" data-href="https://sqlite.org/docsrc/finfo/pages/lang_comment.in?m=3ef91cf3ff">2022-01-08 05:02:57</a> UTC </small></i></p>
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