Thanks, Richard.

-----Original Message----- From: Oliver, Richard [mailto:roliver@spss.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 4:03 PM To: Moffitt, James (West); SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: RE: Multiple line syntax comments

Indenting the continuation lines should work -- but make sure that only the last line ends with a period. A period as the last non-blank character in a line is interpreted as the command terminator.

This should work: *This is a comment with two sentences. The second sentence continues on the second line.

This will generate an error: *This is a comment with two sentences. The second sentence continues on the second line.

-----Original Message----- From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jim Moffitt Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 3:34 PM To: SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Multiple line syntax comments

Sorry about the simple question, but I can't find an answer in any of my SPSS books.

If I want to extend a comment in a syntax window to multiple lines must I each new line with an asterisk?

I've tried beginning the first line with an asterisk and indenting the subsequent lines, but I get error messages.