Thanks for your fast answer. My Problem is not using the RegExp IN the code but ON the code. (Editing / Generating code in the editor). I know the $ meta-character. But somehow i cound not make it work correctly.

Here is an example, I had something like:
 my $foobar = substr($line,20,30);  # this is :;- a comment
which I changed to 

#*****
# this is :;- a comment
#*****
sub foobar($){
  return substr($_[0],20,30);
}

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for a couple of hundreds of variables.
for matching the comment at the end of the line, I did something like:
 (#[a-zA-Z0-9 -_;:()]+) I think there must be a more elegant way to do this.

In reply to Re^2: OptiPerls Pattern Replace (Regexpses for one Line) by Ben Win Lue
in thread OptiPerls Pattern Replace (Regexpses for one Line) by Ben Win Lue

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