in reply to Reading lines beginning with pound # ignored

G'day slugger415,

Check the line endings of the file.

I suspect this is happening:

$ perl -e ' my @lines = ("1\r", "12\r", "123\r"); print for @lines; ' 123

While you're expecting this:

$ perl -e ' my @lines = ("1\n", "12\n", "123\n"); print for @lines; ' 1 12 123

— Ken