Though general suggestions for code improvements are welcome, my specific question relates to this eyesore:

:) Sorry, its all eyesore :P

Mostly the problem is you're trying to s///ubstitute when you should be manipulating an array after m//atching , for example 

 
push @stack, [ COMMENT => $1 ];
...
$stack[-1][0] eq 'COMMENT' and pop @stack for 1..3;

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But freel free to do your own benchmarks 

$ perl -le " $_ = qq{;banana\n;ro\n;sham\n;bo\n}; print; s{(?:^;[^\r\n
+]*[\r\n]+){1,3}\Z}{}m; print; "
;banana
;ro
;sham
;bo

;banana

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Thats just what I think at the moment :)

In reply to Re: Removing multiple trailing comment lines from a string (array of tokens) by Anonymous Monk
in thread Removing multiple trailing comment lines from a string by eyepopslikeamosquito

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