Comments in C Program

Comments in C Programming Language

In this post, We will learn about comments in C programming language. We wirite comments in our to make it more readable on easily unstable.  A  comment never executed as part of the program means compiler ignore it.

Type of Comment in C

• Single line Comment
• Multiline Comment

Single line Comment

Single line comments start with a double forward slash (//)

// this is a single line comments compiler will ignore it

Multiline Comment comments 

In C programming multiline comments start with a forward slash and star (/*) and end with a star and forward slash(*/).

/* this is a single line comments compiler will ignore it
 * Compiler will ignore it */

Example

/* This is Hello world program
 * It will print Hello World on terminal 
*/
#include <stdio.h>  // including header file in program
 int main()  // main function the program
 {  
   printf("Hello World"); // printing Hello World on terminal
   return 0;  // Returning 0
 }  

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