Here's a first try at a little recursive parser that will strip nested items.

If you have a better test case (or a counter-example) please let me know. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

# https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=1221039

use strict;
use warnings;

$_ = <<END;
before
[% # this is a comment to the end of line
   foo = 'bar'
%]

<p>bw, bliako</p>

[%# placing the '#' immediately inside the directive
    tag comments out the entire directive
%]
[% outside %]
[%# placing the '#' immediately inside the directive
    tag comments out the entire directive
    [% inside %]
%]
after
END

print stripcomments();

sub stripcomments
  {
  my $answer = '';
  $answer .=
    /\G\[\%#/gc ? stripcomments() x 0 :
    /\G\[\%/gc ? '[%' . stripcomments() =~ s/#.*//gr . '%]' :
    /\G\%\]/gc ? return $answer :
    /\G./gcs ? $& :
    return $answer while 1;
  }

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Outputs: 

before
[% 
   foo = 'bar'
%]

<p>bw, bliako</p>


[% outside %]

after

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In reply to Re: Regex for removing Template::Toolkit comments? by tybalt89
in thread Regex for removing Template::Toolkit comments? by bliako

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