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Comments on NCL Statements

Individual statements can include comments after the statement text, to describe the function being performed by that statement. In such cases the comments must commence with the two suppression characters, dash asterisk (-*). The text of the comment following the -* is free-form.

Example: Comments on NCL Statements

&PANEL  TESTPANEL  -* DISPLAY OUR TEST PANEL.

Where a statement spans multiple lines and therefore contains continuations, comments can be included on each line if the comment text follows the continuation indicator.

&FILE GET ID=MYFILE OPT=SEQ +-* SEARCH IS TO BE 
                             -* SEQUENTIAL
           VARS=(A,B,C)      -* RECEIVE INTO THESE
                             -* VARIABLES.