4 Comments

Any line having an # (ASCII 0x23) character in the first column is a comment line.

Comment lines are quite useful to insert additional information that is not part of the database but useful otherwise.

It is also quite convenient to comment-out information from the recfile without having to remove it in a definitive way: you may want to recover the data into the database later! Comment lines can be used to comment-out both full registers and single fields:

     Name: Jose E. Marchesi
     # Occupation: Software Engineer
     # Severe lack of brain capacity
     # Fired on 02/01/2009 (without compensation)
     Occupation: Unoccupied

Comments are also useful for headers, footers, comment blocks and all kind of markers:

     # -*- mode: rec -*-
     #
     # TODO
     #
     # This file contains the Bugs database of GNU recutils.
     #
     # Blah blah...
     
     ...
     
     # End of TODO