Dear Monks,

I'm parsing a configuration file, so before doing the proecssing, I want to remove comments, which I take for granted are in the same style as Perl (i.e. one line comments starting with '#' which can occur after other text, which must be left intact)

Here is my code. It works fine unless it comes across '[]' in a comment in my config file (it works fine if the '[]' is outside a comment), when it throws this:
Unmatched [ in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/ ...some text... [<-- HERE] ...some more text..

while (chomp(my $temp=<INPUT>)){
    print Dumper $temp;
    if ($temp =~ /#/){
        $temp =~ s/#$'//;
    }
    if ($temp =~ /^\s*$/){
        next;
    }
    print "after regex:\n";
    print Dumper $temp;
    print "end\n";
    }

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I'm a bit new with regexes so chances are I've missed something obvious---any ideas?

thanks!
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In reply to Regex error when [] occurs in file.. by why_bird

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