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block-comment-character

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block-comment-character railroad diagramRead left to right. Branches are alternatives, bypasses are optional, and loops repeat. Select a production to explore it. The EBNF and linked references follow below.External lexical primitive: block-comment-code-unitblock-comment-code-unit
Production LiteralBranch: choiceBypass: optionalLoop: repeat
EBNF source
block-comment-character =
    block-comment-code-unit ;

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block-comment-code-unit
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