Commenting does not work; "/ is not a valid command name" error

[Jim Jiang]

Hi! For some reason commenting in Stata is not working for me. If I type "// test" (in newly-opened Stata), I get the following error message:

/ is not a valid command name
r(199);

I get the same error when using "/* */". The comments are parsed correctly (shown in green) in the command window, but don't run correctly. Does anyone know what might be going on? Thank you!

[Fei Wang]

I'd suggest typing comments in a do-file editor rather than in the command window.

[Jim Jiang]

I'd suggest typing comments in a do-file editor rather than in the command window.

Thank you for the reply! So I suppose the // indicator just doesn't work in command line?

[Fei Wang]

Thank you for the reply! So I suppose the // indicator just doesn't work in command line?

No it does't work in the command window.