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<h3 class="section">5.2 Comments with #</h3>
<p>The pound character, ‘<samp><span class="samp">#</span></samp>’, may be used to start comments, in
addition to ‘<samp><span class="samp">%</span></samp>’. See the previous example. The major advantage of
this is that as ‘<samp><span class="samp">#</span></samp>’ is also a comment character for unix script
files, any file that starts with a string like ‘<samp><span class="samp">#! /usr/bin/octave
-q</span></samp>’ will be treated as an octave script and be executed by octave.
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