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A single-line comments starts with "--" and ends at the end of the line, eg. `a = 42 -- initial value of 'a'` You can also use "block" comments by following the hyphens by brackets like this: `--[[ Written by Nick Gammon. Date: 3rd June 2011 ]]` To allow for nesting block comments you can add in one or more "=" symbols like this: `--[=[ Written by Nick Gammon. Date: 3rd June 2011 --[===[ Nested comment. ]===] Not nested. ]=]` See Also ... Lua keywords/topics assignment break data types do for (generic) for (numeric) function identifiers if / then / else keywords local logical operators precedence relational operators repeat return string literals tables while Topics Lua base functions Lua bc (big number) functions Lua bit manipulation functions Lua coroutine functions Lua debug functions Lua io functions Lua LPEG library Lua math functions Lua os functions Lua package functions Lua PCRE regular expression functions Lua script extensions Lua SQLite (database) interface Lua string functions Lua syntax Lua table functions Lua utilities Scripting Scripting callbacks - plugins (Help topic: lua=comments)

A single-line comments starts with "--" and ends at the end of the line, eg.

a = 42 -- initial value of 'a'

You can also use "block" comments by following the hyphens by brackets like this:

--[[
  Written by Nick Gammon.
  Date: 3rd June 2011
]]

To allow for nesting block comments you can add in one or more "=" symbols like this:

--[=[
  Written by Nick Gammon.
  Date: 3rd June 2011

  --[===[
    Nested comment.
  ]===]

  Not nested.
]=]

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