[Syntax-Editor] comments need blank lines?

[Moon Kid]

The Syntax-Editor show me a unuseful behavior with comments.

This code

* Qualifikation
FREQUENCIES VARIABLES=v46c
   /ORDER=ANALYSIS.

Is never executed, because line #2 and #3 are also interpreted as
comments. I can see this in the editor because the text is
gray/disabled.
The editor need a blank line between #1 and #2.

But his make the code hard to read and interpret on the first view.
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[GauravSrivastava]

You should put a dot at the end where ur comment line end or add another blank line before starting your syntax.

On Apr 1, 2014 4:50 PM, "Moon Kid" <[hidden email]> wrote:

The Syntax-Editor show me a unuseful behavior with comments.

This code

* Qualifikation
FREQUENCIES VARIABLES=v46c
   /ORDER=ANALYSIS.

Is never executed, because line #2 and #3 are also interpreted as
comments. I can see this in the editor because the text is
gray/disabled.
The editor need a blank line between #1 and #2.

But his make the code hard to read and interpret on the first view.
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[Richard Ristow]

At 07:18 AM 4/1/2014, Moon Kid wrote:

>The Syntax-Editor show me a unuseful behavior with comments.
>This code
>
>* Qualifikation
>FREQUENCIES VARIABLES=v46c
>    /ORDER=ANALYSIS.
>
>is never executed, because line #2 and #3 are also interpreted as comments.

To be more precise about how SPSS is 'thinking' here:

"COMMENT", synonym "*", is an SPSS statement. Like other statements,
it can be continued for multiple lines. Also like other statements,
it's ended by a closing '.' on any line, or a blank line.

So, #2 and #3 are not interpreted as [separate] comments; they are
interpreted as part of the COMMENT ("*") statement that begins on
line #1. As Gaurav Srivastava noted, all you need do is close the
comment statement with a period:

* Qualifikation .
FREQUENCIES VARIABLES=v46c
    /ORDER=ANALYSIS.

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