The GAWK Manual - Comments Go to the previous , next section. A comment is some text that is included in a program for the sake of human readers, and that is not really part of the program.
Comments can explain what the program does, and how it works.
Nearly all programming languages have provisions for comments, because programs are typically hard to understand without their extra help. The awk language ignores the rest of a line following a sharp sign. Go to the previous , next section.