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Most languages support multi-line block (a.k.a. stream) and/or single line comments. A block comment is delimited with text that marks the start and end of comment text. It can span multiple lines or occupy any part of a line. Some languages allow block comments to be recursively nested inside one another, but others do not.
Block comments in Perl are considered part of the documentation, and are given the name Plain Old Documentation (POD). Technically, Perl does not have a convention for including block comments in source code, but POD is routinely used as a workaround. PHP. PHP supports standard C/C++ style comments, but supports Perl style as well. Python
A similar problem exists for the POSIX shell, since POSIX only required its name to be sh, but did not mandate a path. A common value is /bin/sh, but some systems such as Solaris have the POSIX-compatible shell at /usr/xpg4/bin/sh. [13] In many Linux systems, /bin/sh is a hard or symbolic link to /bin/bash, the Bourne Again shell (BASH).
Many languages have a syntax specifically intended for strings with multiple lines. In some of these languages, this syntax is a here document or "heredoc": A token representing the string is put in the middle of a line of code, but the code continues after the starting token and the string's content doesn't appear until the next line. In other ...
The term "here document" or "here string" is also used for multiline string literals in various programming languages, notably Perl (syntax influenced by Unix shell), and languages influenced by Perl, notably PHP and Ruby. The shell-style << syntax is often retained, despite not being used for input redirection.
sed scripts can have comments (the line starting with the # symbol). The s (substitute) command is the most important sed command. sed allows simple programming, with commands such as q (quit). sed uses regular expressions, such as .* (zero or more of any character).
If it does not, however, it can try to execute a shell command. When there is no special server program, Unix shell ignores the fish command as a comment and executes the equivalent shell command(s). Server replies are multi-line, but always end with ### xyz<optional text> line. ### is a prefix to mark this line, xyz is the return code.
It is sometimes used in source code comments to indicate code, e.g., /* Use the `printf()` function. */ This is also the format the Markdown formatter uses to indicate code. [8] Some variations of Markdown support "fenced code blocks" that span multiple lines of code, starting (and ending) with three backticks in a row (```). [9]