A line with a c, C, *, d, D, or! in column one is a comment line, except that if the -xld option is set, then the lines starting with D or d are compiled as debug lines. The d, D, and! are nonstandard. @
If you put an exclamation mark (!) in any column of the statement field, except within character literals, then everything after the ! on that line is a comment. @
A totally blank line is a comment line.
Example: c, C, d, D, *,!, and blank comments:
c Start expression analyzer CHARACTER S, STACK*80 COMMON /PRMS/ N, S, STACK ... * Crack the expression: IF ( S .GE. '0' .AND. S .LE. '9' ) THEN ! EoL comment CALL PUSH ! Save on stack. EoL comment d PRINT *, S ! Debug comment & EoL comment ELSE CALL TOLOWER ! To lowercase EoL comment END IF D PRINT *, N! Debug comment & EoL comment ... C Finished ! expression analyzer