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Property Name

COMMENT

Purpose

This property specifies non-processing information intended to provide a comment to the calendar user.

Value Type

TEXT

Property Parameters

IANA, non-standard, alternate text representation, and language property parameters can be specified on this property.

Conformance: This property can be specified multiple times in "VEVENT", "VTODO", "VJOURNAL", and "VFREEBUSY" calendar components as well as in the "STANDARD" and "DAYLIGHT" sub-components.

Description

This property is used to specify a comment to the calendar user.

Format Definition

This property is defined by the following notation:

 comment    = "COMMENT" commparam ":" text CRLF

 commparam  = *(
            ;
            ; The following are OPTIONAL,
            ; but MUST NOT occur more than once.
            ;
            (";" altrepparam) / (";" languageparam) /
            ;
            ; The following is OPTIONAL,
            ; and MAY occur more than once.
            ;
            (";" other-param)
            ;
            )

Example

The following is an example of this property

 COMMENT:The meeting really needs to include both ourselves
   and the customer. We can't hold this meeting without them.
   As a matter of fact\, the venue for the meeting ought to be at
   their site. - - John

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