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Comments: Documenting Your Code
Comments explain code to human readers and are ignored by the compiler. Single-line comments use // and comment everything after on that line. Multi-line comments use /* */ and can span several lines. Good comments help others understand your logic.
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#include <iostream>using namespace std;int main() {// This is a single-line commentint score = 100;/* This is amulti-line commentspanning three lines */cout << "Score: " << score << endl;return 0;}
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// This is a single-line comment
Compiler ignores everything after // on this line
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/* This is a multi-line comment */
Everything between /* and */ is ignored by compiler