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Tum
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Reputation: 3652

How to comment the whole block of code that already contaning /* comments (Java)?

Let see this example in Java,

    public void methodY(){
        /* some explain ...... */
        int x=1;
    }

Ok, now I want to comment the whole methodY so I put methodY inside /* */ like this:

    /*
    public void methodY(){
        /* inside comment ...... */
        int x=1;
    } 
    */
However, the inside comment /* inside comment ...... */ prevent that to be happen.

In Java, do we have a way to comment the whole block of code that already containing /* comments?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 9473

Answers (7)

Rathi
Rathi

Reputation: 67

Select the passage and give Ctrl+Shift+/

P.S : In eclipse IDE

Upvotes: 1

Rahul
Rahul

Reputation: 3509

ON eclipse select the block you want to comment and use:

ctrl+shift+/

Upvotes: 1

Ruben JG
Ruben JG

Reputation: 97

eclipse select the block you want to comment and use:

ctrl+shift+c

Upvotes: 1

Rahul
Rahul

Reputation: 45060

Just select the block of text(already containing comments) you want to comment and press Ctrl+Shift+/. But this might override the comments already present, which needs to be taken care of.

Instead you can try inline comments, by either providing // at the beginning of each line or using the Ctrl+/ key combination and press it again to undo it. But you need to know that if you comment each line using the inline comment, then you can avoid that scenario, but it would make your job of commenting a bit tedious if the block to be commented has a lot of lines.

The call to use either of the commenting styles is upto you and the needs.

Note: This works for Eclipse running on Windows.

Upvotes: 1

MrRavi
MrRavi

Reputation: 35

For Eclipse IDE : you can use

ctrl+shift+c (to comment and uncomment both)

or you can use ctrl+shift+/ (to comment) and ctrl+shift+\ (to uncomment)

Upvotes: 1

AlexR
AlexR

Reputation: 115328

Comment this using inline comment //.

Typically IDEs support Ctrl-/ on selected block.

Upvotes: 7

skiwi
skiwi

Reputation: 69259

For example in Netbeans you can select all lines and press Ctrl/, this will comment in whole section (not sure if it recomments the /* ... */ again) in // style.

I think there are similar options available in other IDE's.

I am not aware of Java itself processing 'double' comment blocks.

Upvotes: 1

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