AutoLISP: what does the character

I recently downloaded some lisp code, and one of the lines was simply:

| ;

Thinking it was a typo, I commented it out, and the functions following it were ignored.

So... what does the character "|" (ASCII 124, not a capital "i") indicate or do?

 

To write lines in the routine like a paragraph you use the pipe (|) character like this

;|
This will not be read by AutoCAD when loading the lisp.
Neither will this.
|;

Tim

 

thanks...that's interesting. That also explains why when I modified it to be:

;|;

everything beyond that point changed to a comment (I was viewing it it the VisualLISP editor)

 

Look up comments in help. That was the closing of a multi-line comment, as
per the help example:

setvar "orthomode" 1) ;|comment starts here
and continues to this line,
but ends way down here|; (princ "\nORTHOMODE set On.")