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<h4 class="subsection">9.35.2 Special Characters</h4>
<p><a name="index-line-comment-character_002c-s390-1688"></a><a name="index-s390-line-comment-character-1689"></a>
&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">#</span></samp>&rsquo; is the line comment character.
<p>If a &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">#</span></samp>&rsquo; appears as the first character of a line then the whole
line is treated as a comment, but in this case the line could 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><a name="index-line-separator_002c-s390-1690"></a><a name="index-statement-separator_002c-s390-1691"></a><a name="index-s390-line-separator-1692"></a>The &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">;</span></samp>&rsquo; character can be used instead of a newline to separate
statements.
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