In addition to chromatic's remarks, it's also a good idea to learn how to use the HTML parser modules because you will almost certainly run into an application for them later. Using them to delete comments is one thing, but if you ever want to do anything more complex with HTML, you'll already be familiar with this tool. I recommend Ovid's very intuitive HTML::TokeParser::Simple. (I was in your situation not too long ago.) :)

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