in reply to How do I strip lines prefixed by a "#"

Simplest is to: 
while (<INFILE>) {
    next if /^#/;
    # or
    next if substr($_,0,1) eq '#';
    $content .= $_;
};

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RE: Answer: How do I strip lines prefixed by a
by Coplan (Pilgrim) on Oct 25, 2000 at 07:37 UTC
    Ok....that works great!

    But I am (unfortunately) a beginner Perl Hacker. So could you (or someone) please explain what exactly you did?

    I think it's the ^ that confuses me a bit.

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