Hello again!!

I have this regex that tries to get the lines of a program with comments..

sub extract_comments {
my $filename = shift;
local (*F, $/);
open F, "< $filename" or warn("can't read $filename: $!"), 
return;


@hello1=grep defined, <F> =~ m{
( \# .*? \n ) # extract a comment starting in # 
#and finishing in an enter
| " (?: [^"\#]* | \#. )* " # skip over "..."
| ' (?: [^'\#]* | \#. )* ' # skip over '...'
| . [^\#"']* # skip over non-comments-or-quotes
}xgs;
$tam=@h...;
print "Tam: $tam\n";

return @hello;
}

$file="ex1.pl";
@ola=extract_comments($file);
foreach $line (@ola){
print"$line\n";
}

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But the problem is that this doesn´t work very well!! Can somebody tell me why?

Another thing is how can i catch the line number when the regex has match??

Thank you all!

In reply to Bad Regex by nofernandes

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