Hi, my question I have is that I am reading in a file from the command line and storing the file in the perl script as argv[0]; what I would then like to do with the file is remove all COMMENTS in the file. The following is something like what I did...again I am very new to perl....please excuse. 
$TheFile = argv[0];

#Then I want to remove comments
$TheFile =~ s/^'//g;

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I figure that would take $TheFile and remove any lines that begin with a (') or "tick-mark" representing a comment in ASP and replace that line with NOTHING..basically erasing it. If you have any thoughts on this please leave your comments. Thank you for your time.

In reply to removing comments by dhudnall

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