Type
Punctuation Symbol

Purpose
The - - (comment) symbol is used to insert annotative comments in a script. Comments have no effect during the execution of the procedure.

Syntax
-- COMMENT TEXT

Example
for MEMBERS with count of RESERVATIONS >= 7 ;
list records
LAST NAME ;-- THIS SCRIPT LISTS MEMBERS WHO
MEMBER ID . -- TAKE THE MOST VACATIONS
end

This script selects MEMBERS records that have at least seven matching RESERVATIONS records and lists the members' LAST NAME and MEMBER ID values. The comment to the left of the script has no effect on processing. DataEase ignores text that follows the double dash comment symbol.