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How to comment multiple lines of code in classic asp at once?I have tried using ' for every line that I want to comment.But, that is not the best way to do I believe.Can someone help me on this?

Karthik Tirupathi
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    Possible duplicate of [Server-side comments: What's the equivalent of <%-- --%> in ASP Classic?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4431170/server-side-comments-whats-the-equivalent-of-in-asp-classic) – user692942 Oct 15 '15 at 09:08
  • http://stackoverflow.com/a/34536511/20126 – Amr Elgarhy Dec 30 '15 at 20:08

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Use this:

<!-- METADATA  
  comment
-->
AllOutOfSalt
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    It's also worth noting that normally comments are tied to the scripting language used so if JScript was used multi-line comments are built in `/* */`. By default though Classic ASP uses VBScript which doesn't support multi-line comments. This trick will work for any of the scripting languages because it is handled by the Classic ASP pre-processor but it's worth noting that this will only work for Classic ASP. If you were working with VBScript standalone this will not work. – user692942 Oct 15 '15 at 09:05
  • I agree - this is a hack. – Paul Oct 15 '15 at 09:25
  • @Paul I'm not condemning the practice just pointing out the flaws. It is indeed a hack though, but a clever one. – user692942 Oct 15 '15 at 09:30
  • 1. How is this a hack? 2. If you try to put something like this into your actual vbscript code, i.e. *within* the `<% %>` tags, it'll blow up in your face. Perhaps the answer should make that clear? – Martha Oct 15 '15 at 15:09
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There is no "multi-line comments" in ASP - my suggestion for a quick dirty fix:

if False then
 ...
 code to be 'commented'
 ...
end if
Pedro Pimenta
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