QA·C Help - 4821

	4821	Colon is expected.

Annotations

The annotation tag in a Location annotation creates a name for a line of source code which can be referred to from other annotations.

Example:


// PRQA S 100 L1                // Refers to location L1 further down.

// PRQA L:L1                    // This line taged as 'L1'

A location annotation must therefore specify an annotation tag when it is used. The tag name is specified after the ':' in the location annotation. It is therefore an error to omit the ':' in the location annotation.

Example:


// PRQA L L1           // ERROR: Missing ':'

In a suppression annotation, the annotation tag is optional and so it is only necessary to provide the ':' if an annotation tag is required.

Example:


// PRQA S 100                   // Ok, no tag specified
// PRQA S:S1 100                // Ok, tag specified

See also:

4810 Invalid annotation: tag 'locTag' is not defined subsequently in this file.
4811 The start of the range 'locTag', starts and ends at the same location.
4812 'tag' not allowed here.
4820 Annotation kind is expected.
4822 Tag name is expected.
4823 Annotation syntax error.
4824 Invalid character in tag name.
4825 Unexpected character.
4826 Message specification is incomplete or missing.
4827 Tag name is not allowed in the message specification of continuous suppression annotation.
4828 Invalid usage of predefined location tag.

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