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Re: IDL Comments [message #39064 is a reply to message #39063]

Thu, 08 April 2004 11:38

Paul Van Delst[1]
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Registered: April 2002

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Michael Wallace wrote:
> This might be a dumb question, but my curiosity has gotten the best of
> me. Why is it that the main comment block in RSI's IDL code (as well as
> David's) always begins with ';+' ? Is the '+' on the end some sort of
> marker RSI uses to indicate what comments to use when they crank out new
> documentation?

Yep. Well, sorta. The ";+" and ";-" delineate the comment fields when you use the

MK_HTML_HELP

procedure. It produces a somewhat natty html file containing all your documentation. I
altered the IDL code to allow me to do the same for my Fortran90 code. I get nice pages I
can direct people to when they ask questions that clearly indicate they haven't read the
documentation. E.g.

http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/~paulv/Fortran90/Emissivity/Emiss ivity_Define.f90.html

paulv

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		Re: IDL Comments By: mperrin+news on Thu, 08 April 2004 11:35
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