Structure of Comments

Structure of Comments

You can insert comment lines anywhere in a program. There are two ways to indicate comments in a program:

If you want the entire line to be a comment, enter an asterisk (*) at the beginning of the line.

If you want part of a line to be a comment, enter a double quotation mark (") before the comment. The system interprets comments indicated by double quotation marks as spaces.

PROGRAM SAPMTEST.
* The following line contains a WRITE statement
WRITE 'First Program'. " Output on List

The second line of this program is a comment which is not executed. The comment is indicated by an asterisk (*) at the beginning of the line.

On the third line, everything after the double quotation mark (") is a comment and is not executed.

The rest of the program consists of executable statements with the keywords PROGRAM and WRITE.