>As others have already said this is because syntax highlighting parses # compiler parser.
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>You can use it the other way around and comment a multiline command with a single * in front of the first line only...
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* select fields;
>from table;
>into cursor result
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>In VFP9 all lines are highlighted green, in VFP7 only the first but still this is interpreted as a comment only.
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>I assume the compiler first will remove any ;+whitespace+crlf and handle only unconcatenated lines while the syntax highlighter parses lines as they are.
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>Bye, Olaf.

Hi Olaf

Yes I realised that the editor syntax colouring is at odds with the compiler interpretation. I've since made it unambiguous. As I've said, I was going by MapBasic SQL (the more recent I've used) where such a line would indeed have been illegal (you can't have * PLUS a list of other fields) and forgetting that it was OK in VFP.

As for the single * commenting out multi lines of code, I've been bitten by that in the past, and the editor AND the compiler don't give a hint that the subsequent lines of code are dismissed. Good that VFP 9 would show you that.

BTW, by "green" I assume you refer to the default syntax colours, as not everyone wil have the same. :-)

Bye

Terry