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<h5 class="subsubsection">9.40.2.1 Special Characters</h5>
<p><a name="index-line-comment-character_002c-SH-1939"></a><a name="index-SH-line-comment-character-1940"></a>‘<samp><span class="samp">!</span></samp>’ is the line comment character.
<p><a name="index-line-separator_002c-SH-1941"></a><a name="index-statement-separator_002c-SH-1942"></a><a name="index-SH-line-separator-1943"></a>You can use ‘<samp><span class="samp">;</span></samp>’ instead of a newline to separate statements.
<p>If a ‘<samp><span class="samp">#</span></samp>’ appears as the first character of a line then the whole
line is treated as a comment, but in this case the line could 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-symbol-names_002c-_0040samp_007b_0024_007d-in-1944"></a><a name="index-g_t_0040code_007b_0024_007d-in-symbol-names-1945"></a>Since ‘<samp><span class="samp">$</span></samp>’ has no special meaning, you may use it in symbol names.
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