Re: st: comment out a number of lines together

[Nick Cox <n.j.cox@stata.com>]

Another is to prefix lines by e.g.

`c'

Setting

local c *

or

local c //

comments out those lines.

Setting

local c

zaps the macro.

Naturally any definition of the local as "*" or "//" must precede all 
uses that require that interpretation.

The converse does not apply: if the local is not defined, Stata sees the 
line.

More generally, you can define or undefine the macro at will.

I don't especially recommend this method, but it is an alternative that 
is sometimes useful, and it matches practices in many programming 
languages.

Nick
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk


Maarten buis wrote:

> --- Paul O'Brien <paul.obrien@afe2.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > at times i need to comment out a number of lines, usually with * and 
> > remove the * later to activate the commands.
> > is there a simple way to remove and add the * to a number of line at 
> > one go?
> One way to comment out a block of code is to surround them with /* and
> */ this way you have to remove only these two. 
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