Yes the map and grep functions are your friends (good friends) - 
my @some = grep { !/^\s*$/ } (my @most = map { s/#.*$//; $_ } <FILE>);

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Although this does make assumptions like comments not being in the middle of quotes and the like, otherwise you'll want some slightly fancier parsing than the above. Also, did you *just* want to get rid of the hashes (like you say), or the hashes *and* the comments (like you code)?
HTH

broquaint

Update: yes running the code first might be an idea... now works proper.
Update 2: sometimes they come back... got rid of @all as I didn't *really* need it, as merlyn indirectly illustrates below :o)

In reply to Re: duplicate $_ while reading files; my compactness; code structure by broquaint
in thread duplicate $_ while reading files; my compactness; code structure by Amoe

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