Re: Perl Syntax that we generally don't know or forget.

  ## remove comments:
  $str =~ s/(?:^|\n)[ \t]*#//gs ;
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The juxtaposition leaves one to wonder, is the double ## style meant to be a comment resistant to removal?

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Re: Re: Perl Syntax that we generally don't know or forget. by gmpassos (Priest) on Jan 18, 2004 at 06:27 UTC
I put this just as an example of use of (?:^\|foo). Actually the code to remove a comment line should be: `$str =~ s/(?:^\|\n)[ \t]#[^\r\n]//gs ;` [download] Thanks for the advice. ;-P Graciliano M. P. "Creativity is the expression of the liberty".	[reply] [d/l]