s there a way to have perl ignore a big section without having to put comments in front of every row?
Stricly speaking, no, as # is the only of creating comments (natively) in perl. However you can use POD to comment out large sections like so 
use strict;

=pod

...

=cut

exit 0;

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However that won't work if you've got POD in the code inbetween. Another option is to use heredocs 
use strict;

<<'IGNORETHIS';

...

IGNORETHIS

exit 0;

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And finally there's always a CPAN module to do the job - Acme::Comment.
HTH

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broquaint

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