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Asked: 2026-05-10T14:30:06+00:00

This question would probably apply equally as well to other languages with C-like multi-line

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This question would probably apply equally as well to other languages with C-like multi-line comments. Here’s the problem I’m encountering. I’m working with Java code in Eclipse, and I wanted to comment out a block of code. However, there is a string that contains the character sequence ‘*/’, and Eclipse thinks that the comment should end there, even though it is inside a string. It gives me tons of errors and fails to build.

/*    ... some Java code ...    ... '... */ ...' ...    ... more Java code ... */

Does the Java specification match with Eclipse’s interpretation of my multi-line comment? I would like to think that Java and/or Eclipse would account for this sort of thing.

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  1. Eclipse is correct. There is no interpretation context inside a comment (no escaping, etc). See JLS §3.7.

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