Block comments in VBA

[Conan Kelly]

Hello all,

Is there a way to do block comments in VBA instead of just the line comments (')?

 

[Ian]

Not sure what you mean by a block comment, but if you want to label a code
section, you could comment a blank line above the code, then comment a blank
line after.

eg

'Comment here
Code starts here
-
-
-
-
-
Code ends here
'-----------

 

[Conan Kelly]

Ian,

Thanks for the feed back.

What I mean by a block comment is in Transact-SQL (SQL Server 2000) and Java, a block comment starts with /* and ends with */.
Everything in between the start of the comment and the end of the comment is commented out, whether it consists of multiple lines or
just a couple of characters on one line. That way, when working with multiple lines, you don't have to comment out each line
individually. You just need to put a /* at the beginning of the lines you want commented out and put */ at the end.

Thanks again for all of your help,

Conan

 

[Guest]

Nope... Each line of comments must start with an apostrophe. C/C++ does not
care about carriage returns in the code so you can comment entire sections.
Here is what you can do. In the VBE bring up the edit tool bar and there are
two buttons on the bar "Comment Block" and "Uncomment Block". Select a group
of code and hit the button to automatically comment the entire section.

 

[Conan Kelly]

Jim,

Thanks for the feed back.

I already know about the Comment and Uncomment buttons on the toolbar. I use them quite regularly.

I was just hoping that VBA had a Start Comment character and an End Comment character, because they might be valuable in another
way. I would not use them to comment out multiple whole lines, but I think they might be useful to comment out sections of a single
line.

Thanks again for all of your help,

Conan Kelly

 

[Guest]

Sorry the languages you list (of which C/C++ is a part) are all freeform
languages. They don't care about carriage returns or comments. They care
about semi colons.