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<h5 class="subsubsection">9.51.1.1 Special Characters</h5>
<p><a name="index-line-comment-character_002c-XStormy16-2418"></a><a name="index-XStormy16-line-comment-character-2419"></a>‘<samp><span class="samp">#</span></samp>’ is the line comment character. If a ‘<samp><span class="samp">#</span></samp>’ appears as the
first character of a line, the whole line is treated as a comment, but
in this case the line can also be a logical line number directive
(see <a href="Comments.html#Comments">Comments</a>) or a preprocessor control command
(see <a href="Preprocessing.html#Preprocessing">Preprocessing</a>).
<p><a name="index-comment-character_002c-XStormy16-2420"></a><a name="index-XStormy16-comment-character-2421"></a>A semicolon (‘<samp><span class="samp">;</span></samp>’) can be used to start a comment that extends
from wherever the character appears on the line up to the end of the
line.
<p><a name="index-line-separator_002c-XStormy16-2422"></a><a name="index-statement-separator_002c-XStormy16-2423"></a><a name="index-XStormy16-line-separator-2424"></a>
The ‘<samp><span class="samp">|</span></samp>’ character can be used to separate statements on the same
line.
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