Re: How do I strip lines prefixed by a

Generally when I'm reading files that have the potential for comments or blank lines, a simple regular expression or two does the trick:

while (<DATA>) {
   s/\s#.*//;
   next unless /\S/;
   do_something($_);
}

__DATA__
# This is my file
# with a few lines of comments

data=here        # another comment
more=data
                 # more comments
and=more

# end of file
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RE: Answer: How do I strip lines prefixed by a by Fastolfe (Vicar) on Oct 25, 2000 at 20:20 UTC
That first regexp should have read: `s/\s#.//;`	[reply] [d/l]