I can see the need for development standards and comments.. In fact we have standards that require a comment block at the top of each file, and before each function, explaining what it is, which project it belongs to, who wrote it, etc. Nothing wrong with that at all. Tho having said that, I don't see much point in extracting comments without the code they're supposed to annotate.

Whatever, you'll probably need a code parser to extract *just* the comments, pretty difficult as in perl the quote operators can use almost anything as delimiters, you'd actually have to check for keywords etc. Parse::RecDescent maybe? (Sounds crazy though) - Or just update Regexp::Common::comment your own Regexes?

C.