Allow comments in Cypher statements

[sapalli2989]

Please allow parsing of cypher statements with // comments without errors. This is useful for documentation purposes, especially when cypher statements are 1) embedded as multi-line string within code 2) saved in separate .cypher file 3) copy/pasted from code.

Resources

• Cypher query language reference (direct link)
• https://neo4j.com/docs/cypher-manual/current/syntax/comments/

[andyfengHKU]

Hi @sapalli2989, thanks for pointing out.

If you are using v0.3.0, we already support comment with /* */, e.g.

MATCH (a) RETURN COUNT(*) /* this is a comment*/ ;

I'll add the support for // comment as well.

[sapalli2989]

@andyfengHKU Great, appreciated!

[andyfengHKU]

Hi @sapalli2989, sorry for the late response. Had been travelling in the past week.

The // comment is added in PR #3026

[sapalli2989]

Thanks for the info @andyfengHKU , hope you had a good time!