If whitespace is ignored, why can comments be ended with a line break?

Answer 1

The compiler checks your code line by line. The comments are identified in the process and ignored.
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Answer 2

all characters are ignored till the compiler finds the end comments character
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comment_(computer_programming)
Comment (computer programming) - Wikipedia
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How exactly does the compiler deal with comments in code - Quora

Answer 3

Thank you guys!