new to perl... I want to purge my php.ini file of all comments, mostly.

some comments are commented directives that look like this:

;some_directive

explanatory comments look like this:

; this directive does such and such

I want to keep the commented directives and purge the explanatory comments.

      1 #!/usr/bin/perl
      2 $iniprod = "php.ini-production";
      3 $ininocm = "php.ini-nocomments";
      4 open(NOCM, ">$ininocm");
      5 $txt = perl -ne 's/;\s.*// $iniprod';
      6 print NOCM $txt;
      7 close NOCM or die "Could not close $ininocm";

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I'm trying to assign the results of the regex purge to $txt, then write it to a new file.

any help appreciated... thx

In reply to regex basics by jott19

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