in reply to Re^3: Unpack Many Fields
in thread Unpack Many Fields

It does. The first sentence of the following is present since at least 5.6.0:

A comment in a TEMPLATE starts with # and goes to the end of line. White space may be used to separate pack codes from each other, but modifiers and a repeat count must follow immediately.

It would be nice if WS and # were mentioned in the table at the top, though.

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Re^5: Unpack Many Fields
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Feb 16, 2010 at 05:48 UTC

    So it does. I scrolled up and down both the pack and unpack entires several times before I posted; and again just now and didn't pick it out. I had to use a search to find it--which is far easier once you know what search term to use.

    Seconded on the addition to the table at the top.

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