Re: What's the exact rule about hash/pound?

An unquoted # that follows whitespace or a semicolon is a comment.

# this is a comment
 # as is this
print "# I'm not!";# but I am
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Update: Ignore me! For I'm an idiot. ;-)

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Re: What's the exact rule about hash/pound? by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Feb 27, 2003 at 13:59 UTC
Not true: `print " # Not a comment";` [download] The reverse isn't true either: `print "foo"#This is a comment` [download] Abigail	[reply] [d/l] [select]