in reply to Adding '#' in the beginning of each line

Well, in the real world, I'd do it like so:

perl -ple 's/^/#/'

Whether your instructor has other goals in mind is something else entirely...

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Re^2: Adding '#' in the beginning of each line
by jdporter (Paladin) on Jan 24, 2010 at 23:54 UTC