thanks mwa and thanks for you tips also
iam now having a problem and i think it's stupidness to have such one
i posts some posts about how to comment zones in the zone file and i got a wonderful answers and a good code especially from shmem
by the way here is the code shmem wrote 
 #!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

print " please enter the domain name: ";

my  $targetdomain = <STDIN>;

chomp $targetdomain;

my  $file = "/home/blackice/hello";

rename $file, "$file.bak" or die "Can't rename file '$file': $!\n";

open my $in, '<', "$file.bak" or die "Can't read file '$file': $!\n";
open my $out, '>', $file or die "Can't write file '$file': $!\n";

my $comment = 0;
my $block   = 0;
while(<$in>) {
    if (/^zone\s+"$targetdomain"/) {      
    $comment++;
        $block += () = /(\{)/g;            
    print $out '// '.$_; next;
    }
    if($comment) {        
    $block += () = /(\{)/g;
        s!^!// ! if $comment or $block;
        $block -= () = /(\})/g;
        $comment = 0 unless $block;  
    }
    print $out $_;
}

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and it works very well and i understand the way of that script works and it was agood idea
but i want to add some feature to this script i want to add the date at the top of the zone when that zone was commented on
i have tried to make some tries ,, i have creates my $date = `date -u "+%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S"`; this is a date string that i can print in the script and i tried to print it here 
 print "date";
  print $out $_;

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also i have tried to print it before this line  print $out '// '.$_; next; but it failed ,, i also have tried to print it in some other places and it also fails
so can you help me of how to think about that

thanks

In reply to Re^6: FEAR OF PERL by firewall00
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