Hi monks, I am new to perl. I am writing one code . It is used to remove the comments from ruby code. I have tried the code with regular expression. I have handled some of the cases. I unable to handle the quotes (Single and multiple ) in the code. I want to handle the following cases, 
#I want to remove this line.
#"#This line too"
puts "Hello, Ruby!" #Remove this comment alone.",,,,,....'''"#Consider
+ this content too.
puts "############I don't want to remove this content bcoz it is in qu
+otes#"  #But remove this content.
puts "This is for testing ##sdfsfsf"  ###Remove this content.
puts 'This is for testing ##testing' #I want to remove this content al
+one'

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I have tried the following expression,

     $_=~s/^#.*$//;
     $_ =~ s/([^"|'](#)+.*[^"|'])\s*#.*$/$1/;
     $_ =~ s/[^"|']#.*[^"|']$//;

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Desired output:
puts "Hello, Ruby!" ",,,,,....'''"
puts "############I don't want to remove this content bcoz it is in qu
+otes#"
puts "This is for testing ##sdfsfsf"
puts 'This is for testing ##testing'

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Please any one give me the correct regular expression to fulfill my requirement. Actually without quotes I have handled the cases easily. But I want to handle the quotes too. Thanks in advance...

In reply to Regular expression.. by Anonymous Monk

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