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<h5 class="subsubsection">9.15.3.2 Special Characters</h5>
<p><a name="index-line-comment-character_002c-i386-1072"></a><a name="index-i386-line-comment-character-1073"></a>The presence of a ‘<samp><span class="samp">#</span></samp>’ appearing anywhere on a line indicates the
start of a comment that extends to the end of that line.
<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 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>If the <samp><span class="option">--divide</span></samp> command line option has not been specified
then the ‘<samp><span class="samp">/</span></samp>’ character appearing anywhere on a line also
introduces a line comment.
<p><a name="index-line-separator_002c-i386-1074"></a><a name="index-statement-separator_002c-i386-1075"></a><a name="index-i386-line-separator-1076"></a>The ‘<samp><span class="samp">;</span></samp>’ character can be used to separate statements on the same
line.
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