C++ Comments - Learn With AVRK

Comments in C++ Language 

C++ comments are those statements which are never executed by the compiler. The comments in C++ programming are used to provide explanation about the code, method or class, variable. 

There are two types of comments -

• Single Line comment
• Multiline comment

C++ Single Line Comment

These single line comments are starts with double slash (//). Let's look at an example of single line comment in C++.

#include<iostream>   
using namespace std;  
int main()  
{  
    int x = 10; // x is a variable
    cout<<x<<"\n";  
}  

Output -

10

C++ Multiline Comment

These C++ multiline comments are used to comment multiple lines of statements. It is surrounded by slash and asterisk (/∗ ..... ∗/). Let's look at an example of multiline comment in C++.

#include<iostream>   
using namespace std;  
int main()  
{  
    /* declaration and 
    initialization a variable */
    int x = 15; 
    cout<<x<<"\n";  
}  

Output -

15

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