Comment Styles

The COBOL editor supports the following comment styles.

Style	Explanation
Style A	A line with "/", "D", "d", or "*" in the indicator area (column 7) is treated entirely as a comment line.
Style B	On a line with ">", the portion from the ">" to the end of the line is treated as an in-line comment.
Style C	A character string in the program identification area (column 73 and subsequent columns) is treated as a comment.

The Fixed format supports all of the above comment styles.
The Variable format supports styles A and B. (With the Variable format, the portion in column 251 and subsequent columns is treated as a comment.)