AE expression error when using // or /*

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September 15, 2023
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Hi 🙂 every time i try "comment out" something in my expression i get the expression error banner. Is there any other way to put comments in your code in AE?

thanks!

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Rick Gerard

Community Expert

//Comment

ref = thisComp.layer(index -1);

Should work. Leave out the apostrophe, and things will break.

What does the expression look like when a comment fails? I'm not seeing the problem anywhere.

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mateusz mateuszAuthor

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Thank you for taking time to answer!

well, it looks like ae doesn't allow you to comment out all the code within an expression 🙂

that solves my problem. sorry for bothering

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Rick Gerard

Community Expert

This will comment out everything between the punctuation and let what follows run. You just have to complete the process.

/*
ref = thisComp.layer(index - 1).position;
*/

ref2 = thisComp.layer(index + 1).position;

The commented section between /* and */ disables looking at the layer above for position. It should be working that way for you.

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