Commenting out lines in .ini files

[Warner_V (Warner)]

Pretty basic question I guess… but can someone tell me what character to use to comment out lines in e.g. the DefaultEngine.ini file?

So if I want to skip the second line in:

[/Script/Engine.RendererSettings]
r.DefaultFeature.AmbientOcclusion=True

do I make it

[/Script/Engine.RendererSettings]
#r.DefaultFeature.AmbientOcclusion=True

or

[/Script/Engine.RendererSettings]
//r.DefaultFeature.AmbientOcclusion=True

or something else?

…it would be great if I can comment out so I can properly document changes and have less need to make backups after each change…

Thanks!!
Warner

[Zeblote]

It looks like the correct way to add comments in ini files is

; blah

[Warner_V (Warner)]

That works, thanks!

[TorQueMoD]

Quoting from the Official Documentation:

Most people seem to be under the impression that the semicolon denotes comments in configuration files, but they are not (FConfigFile::ProcessInputFileContents does not actually treat them, or any other string, as a comment delimiter). This behavior is intentional. Technically any character can represent a different key-value pair. Typically, a semicolon is placed at the beginning of a new line. It works like a comment, but it is not actually.

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/…igurationFiles

Unfortunately they don’t expand on that train of thought so who knows what are actually comments. Thanks Epic! lol

[ennorehling]

It appears that you can use // for comments. I just found this out the hard way, because my ini file contained the line

BaseURL=https://example.com/

But the BaseURL variable in my Settings object was set to “https:”. Thanks, Epic!