Perlaccess : Tutorials : General Documenting your Script (11.1) by Brett Roberts http://www.bigresources.com

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While writing or modifying your scripts, be sure to write comments documenting what you are coding. This is essential in writing scripts as a web programmer because a lot of times other programmers will find your scripts and wish to learn why you coded a certain way. To add comments on seperate lines... 1). At the beginning of a line, type # to start the comment 2). Type your comments following the # 3). Repeat the steps above for each line of code. # This would be a comment line # And another comment line To add comments on the same line as code... 1). Type a line of code and don't forget the semicolon that ends a statement 2). After the end of the line, type a space and the # 3). After the #, begin typing your comment $myvariable = "InitializeMe"; #This is where I initialize my variable $myvariable Note: Each individual line of comments must begin with its own #