Toggle comment selection button to uncomment macro .

[Johan Pauwels]

As far as I know, commenting out a macro call does not work with the asterix sign : *
So this does not uncomment, the macro will still run

* !thisisamacrocall


However, it does work with backslash + asterix.
This works:
/* !thisisamacrocall

Nothing will happen is I run this.


Now newer versions of SPSS have the "toggle comment" button, which enables you to select large pieces of syntax and comment/uncomment them as a whole.
It does it by placing the asterix before each command.

I guess you hear me coming:
Is there any way to have the toggle comment button to place '/*' instead of '*', so I can uncomment several macro calls at once?

Thanks

[Jon K Peck]

Macro expansion is sometimes useful in a comment.
The /* notation has the disadvantage that using it to comment  out code does not always work.
For example,
/*freq educ /* a comment */ x  z.
results in the line
x z.
because the within-line comment has been terminated.  In-line comments do not nest.


Jon Peck (no "h") aka Kim
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As far as I know, commenting out a macro call does not work with the asterix
sign : *
So this does not uncomment, the macro will still run

* !thisisamacrocall


However, it does work with backslash + asterix.
This works:
/* !thisisamacrocall

Nothing will happen is I run this.


Now newer versions of SPSS have the "toggle comment" button, which enables
you to select large pieces of syntax and comment/uncomment them as a whole.
It does it by placing the asterix before each command.

I guess you hear me coming:
Is there any way to have the toggle comment button to place '/*' instead of
'*', so I can uncomment several macro calls at once?

Thanks



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