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- UPPER
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Transformation Language Reference

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- 10.5.8
- 10.5.7
- 10.5.4
- 10.5.1
- 10.5
- 10.4.0

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Adding Comments to Expressions

The transformation language provides two comment specifiers to let you insert comments in expressions:

Two dashes, as in:

-- These are comments

Two slashes, as in:

// These are comments

The

Data Integration Service

ignores all text on a line preceded by these two comment specifiers. For example, if you want to concatenate two strings, you can enter the following expression with comments in the middle of the expression:

 -- This expression concatenates first and last names for customers: 
FIRST_NAME -- First names from the CUST table 
|| // Concat symbol 
LAST_NAME // Last names from the CUST table 
// Joe Smith Aug 18 1998

The

Data Integration Service

ignores the comments and evaluates the expression as follows:

FIRST_NAME || LAST_NAME

You cannot continue a comment to a new line:

-- This expression concatenates first and last names for customers: 
FIRST_NAME -- First names from the CUST table 
|| // Concat symbol 
LAST_NAME // Last names from the CUST table 
Joe Smith Aug 18 1998

In this case, the Developer tool does not validate the expression, since the last line is not a valid expression.

If you do not want to embed comments, you can add them by clicking Comment in the Expression Editor.

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Adding Comments to Expressions