printing comments with write and format

jdcotter has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Simple question: How do I print the comment character (#) with a write statement using formats? Obviously perl thinks a # in the first column is a comment. Can you escape it? I can print it out if it's the second character but the output file looks kinda dumb. I just want to add some static text comments at the top via the STDOUT_TOP

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Re: printing comments with write and format by Fastolfe (Vicar) on Sep 26, 2000 at 23:13 UTC
I'm not sure how to put a pound sign in the format directly, but you can just put it as your first "field" in the format: `format Comment = @ @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< "#", "This line is a comment." .` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: printing comments with write and format by elwarren (Priest) on Sep 27, 2000 at 17:36 UTC
Couldn't you stuff it into a variable and then just print the variable?	[reply]