Re: Regex to ignore comment

Can you show us data and what you expect to match/reject? Do you want to reject the first line in your __DATA__ section? Would it be easier to simply reject all lines that contain # ?

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Re^2: Regex to ignore comment by crusty_collins (Friar) on Oct 20, 2015 at 17:53 UTC
I need to get the text before the comment IE # invalid `__DATA__ [IP] regex = (?<First>..... pattern = 255.257.0.0 # invalid pattern = 192.168.1.1` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Regex to ignore comment by Corion (Patriarch) on Oct 20, 2015 at 18:03 UTC
Why don't you just strip off everything starting with `#`? `$line =~ s!#.*$!!; # strip off comments my( $key, $value ) = split /=/, $line;` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]