Whenever your C compiler encounters a slash followed immediately by an
asterisk, /*
, the compiler ignores both characters and all other
characters up to and including the next asterisk that is followed
immediately by a slash, */
. Thus, /*
and */
delimit
comments:
/* This line is a sample comment ... */
If you want to test how a program works without certain lines of source code, you can hide those lines in a comment, instead of deleting them.