in reply to Seeker of Regex Wisdom (strings which don't form specific patterns)

On the basis of your limited sample, it looks like all you need is to exclude lines that start with a #. Ie:

perl -nle"/^#/ or print" infile > outfile

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If there are cases that doesn't work for, post some more samples.

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Re^2: Seeker of Regex Wisdom (strings which don't form specific patterns)
by ilcylic (Scribe) on Aug 13, 2015 at 15:14 UTC
    Yeah, sorry, my examples were apparently not as good as I was hoping for. Post updated.
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