Commenting out blocks of code at a time in Fortran? (CVF 6.1)

[ucdavisprgmer]

In Java I remember youcould comment out entire blocks of code (with //... //), in MatLab, you can select a block of code and comment it out all at once (it inserts a '%' in front of each line).

Is it possible in CompaqVisFortran (6.1), or in Fortran in general, to comment out blocks of code? I'm spending alot of time typing then erasing: ! downarrow, ! downarrow, ! downarrow, etc.

Thank you for your ideas and help,

-J

Message Edited by UCDavisPrgmer on 02-23-2005 11:11 AM

[sabalan]

If you need this while debugging then you can use "conditional compile" writing

!DEC$ IF (.False.)

before the block, and

!DEC$ END IF

after the block.

Sabalan.

[ingo_berg]

Something like this?

http://www.codeproject.com/macro/solesby.asp

Needs to be adjusted to fortran comment syntax, should not be a problem.