Re: comment sections

s there a way to have perl ignore a big section without having to put comments in front of every row?

Stricly speaking, no, as # is the only of creating comments (natively) in perl. However you can use POD to comment out large sections like so

use strict;

=pod

...

=cut

exit 0;
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However that won't work if you've got POD in the code inbetween. Another option is to use heredocs

use strict;

<<'IGNORETHIS';

...

IGNORETHIS

exit 0;
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And finally there's always a CPAN module to do the job - Acme::Comment.
HTH

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Re: comment sections by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Apr 15, 2003 at 09:28 UTC
If you are going to use the here doc way, I suggest putting single quotes around the delimiter; otherwise, Perl will interpolate anything starting with a `$` or a `@`, which might cause warnings, or even compile errors if you `use strict`. Abigail	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: comment sections by demerphq (Chancellor) on Apr 15, 2003 at 10:12 UTC
However you can use POD to comment out large sections like so .... If I'm going to use pod for this (my editor handles it nicely so I don't usually) I prefer to use `=begin block_comment ... =end block_comment =cut` [download] or for smaller chunks of code without blank lines in them a simple `=for consideration_later ..... =cut` [download] Doing it this way has the advantage that the pod'ed out code doesnt get treated by the various pod parsers as being part of the actual documentation. --- demerphq _{<Elian> And I do take a kind of perverse pleasure in having an OO assembly language...}	[reply] [d/l] [select]