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I understand your dilemma. The trade off between the value of comments versus folks who have semi-colons in column one has to be considered. How about a comment character selection as part of the interface? I.e. default it to semi-colon or percent sign in first column ( or even anywhere ) and allow the user to specify.

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Re^6: getting more from __DATA__
by Ctrl-z (Friar) on Mar 30, 2005 at 01:39 UTC

    I was reticent about adding another parameter to the 'use' statement, but I think you are right.

    Ive added support for arbitrary callbacks and stripping some common comment syntax. Check out the updated POD and source for the skinny.

    Thanks for the input

    edit: flash of inspiration last night, now an arbitrary number of callbacks is supported with some predefined comment strippers.




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