Multipline Line Comments in Fortran?

Is there any way to make a block of code into comments in FORTRAN at once? Something like /* and */ in C for example, or some editor capability.

Multipline Line Comments in Fortran?
try this at the begining


goto 87


block of code


87 continue





assuming the block of code is compilable,
Reply:most editors like emacs or vim will allow you to comment an entire region.
Reply:Fortran and Fortran 77 are not a free-format languages, but have a very strict set of rules for how the source code should be formatted. That is why the comment character (c, * or sometimes !) must be present in the first column of each line which is a comment. Fortran 90 is a little bit more modern, but still is not possible to have block comments.

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