Date:         Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:29:41 -0400
Reply-To:     Catherine Kubitschek <Catherine.A.Kubitschek.2@nd.edu>
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From:         Catherine Kubitschek <Catherine.A.Kubitschek.2@nd.edu>
Subject:      Re: comments within commands .
Comments: To: Richard Ristow <wrristow@mindspring.com>
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Many thanks, Richard and Jonathan.  That was exactly the problem and
Richard's solution worked. -Catherine

At 9/24/2007 10:03 PM, Richard Ristow wrote:
>At 09:42 PM 9/24/2007, Catherine Kubitschek wrote:
>
>>I'm trying to comment out part of a command in situ but I'm not having
>>much luck getting it to run.
>>
>>match files file=Acad_013   /in=in013
>>            /table=Acad_Tce  /in=inTce
>>            /*   /table=Acad_2006 /in=in2006 */
>>            /by Id .
>>
>>The error message I'm getting indicates that the comment is ending the
>>match files command.
>
>I'm afraid that's just what happens. As you quote from the Command
>Syntax Reference, "The comment can be placed wherever a blank is
>valid." Unfortunately, as a corollary or implementation quirk, for
>parsing of code, a comment *IS* a blank. So your command is parsed as
>
>match files file=Acad_013   /in=in013
>            /table=Acad_Tce  /in=inTce
>
>            /by Id .
>
>and the blank line ends it. I'd like to do what you want to, too, but
>anyway, this should work (but untested):
>
>match files file=Acad_013   /in=in013
>            /table=Acad_Tce  /in=inTce
>            /*   /table=Acad_2006 /in=in2006 */ /by Id .