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70<h4 class="subsection">9.41.2 Special Characters</h4>
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74<p>&lsquo;<samp>#</samp>&rsquo; is the line comment character.
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76<p>If a &lsquo;<samp>#</samp>&rsquo; appears as the first character of a line then the whole
77line is treated as a comment, but in this case the line could also be
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84<p>The &lsquo;<samp>;</samp>&rsquo; character can be used instead of a newline to separate
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