I am parsing some IBM Assembly Language which also happens to be a BMS map.
The code looks like this:
*02LN DFHMDF POS=(04,05),LENGTH=70,ATTRB=(ASKIP,BRT), X
HILIGHT=REVERSE,COLOR=BLUE
Note that the first line is a comment based on the * in the first column.
Is the second line also a comment because the first line has a continuation character?
The context of this question is that I am parsing the code without a mainframe as I am converting these maps to a different system.
As per the HLASM reference:
Comment statements must lie within the statement field. If the comment extends into the continuation-indicator field, the statement following the comment statement is considered a continuation line of that comment statement.
So your guess is right: you can also create multiline-comments by using the continuation-indicator.