2009/12/31 Mike Ayers <[email protected]>:
> I do not believe you can place comment markers (--) inside a comment.
> I believe you need to add a space after the comment markers.
> I do not believe you can put a comment marker within a comment,
That's not strictly true.
The ASN.1 comment marker '--' works in a similar manner
to the C-style /* */ comments (as well as C++-style // comments).
I.e. double-dash denotes the start of a comment, and a second
double-dash (or the end of the line) denotes the end of the comment.
So
myObject -- this is a comment -- OBJECT IDENTIFIER
is perfectly valid syntax.
This means that a line of dashes will work correctly,
as long as there are an even number (or 4n-1) of dashes
in the line. But if you have 4n+1 dashes, then the first 4n
will be interpreted as n (empty) comments, and the final
dash will be parsed as active syntax, and throw an error.
So you *can* use lines of dashes to separate different sections
of the MIB, and you've fot a 75% chance of getting away with it!
But I would agree with Mike's advice:
> i.e., don't do "----------------------".
If you want to have horizontal rules in your MIB,
try something like
- - = = = = = = = = = =
(without the spaces!)
Dave
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