Send COMMENT to Blossom Statistics Log, Data and Submit Files (Quote Command)

A comment is indicated by a single or double quotation mark (' or ") as the first non-blank character of a line. The command line syntax of the comment is:

        ' text of comment
        - or -
        " text of comment

where text of comment is the text of the comment to be inserted in the Blossom history (BLOSSOM.LOG file). Comments can be entered at the Blossom command line, in which case the comment is added to the BLOSSOM.LOG file to help document a session. Comments can also be used within ASCII text data or submit files to indicate what data are used, what the variable names mean, and what analyses are being called for. Blossom skips over comment lines in data or submit files. Comments are useful for annotating steps of analysis throughout a session. For example, entering:

        >'now calculate a quadratic LAD regression on ht versus age

writes the comment line to the current session's log file.

A data file with comments might look like this:

    ' Spatial coordinates of young and old birds
    ' data collected summer 1989
    GROUPT X_COORD Y_COORD
    ' begin group 1 = young
    1 4 5
    1 3 4
    1 4 3
    ' begin group 2 = old
    2 2 3
    2 2 2
    2 3 2
    2 3 1

Contrast this comment function (which writes to the BLOSSOM.LOG file) with the NOTE command (which writes to the OUTPUT file).