Hello Monks,

I am trying to parse a text file that has many lines beginning with # (pound character). When I read the file and print the lines out, it seems to ignore all of those lines. For instance, here's the contents of my history.txt file:

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:547,Excerpt from the Binti
Excerpt from the Binti novella series by Nnedi Okorafor.mp3

when I read this file, and print each line, I only see:

Excerpt from the Binti novella series by Nnedi Okorafor.mp3
[download]

The lines beginning with # are ignored; here's my code:

#! /usr/bin/perl

use strict;

my $history = shift;
open my $fh, "<:encoding(utf8)", "$history" or die "$history: $!";
while (my $line=<$fh>){
    print $line;
}
close($fh);

exit;
[download]

I'm on Windows 10 using Strawberry Perl version 30, subversion 1 (v5.30.1). Am I doing something wrong? Thanks for any advice.

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