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When can we use the comment options in SPL?

danielbb
Motivator

When can we use SPL2 with the lovely comments options described at https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SCS/current/Search/Comments  ?

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jfeitosa_real
Path Finder

```THIS IS A COMMENT```

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jfeitosa_real
Path Finder

If you are running splunk in Release 8.1
Try this.
`comment (" THIS IS A COMMENT ")`

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isoutamo
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust
In 8.1 you can comment as
```you text here```
In earlier versions you could use
rename COMMENT as “your text here”
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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Release 8.1 I believe

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