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Know how to comment out large slabs of code easily.
  1. Mark the block to be commented.
  2. Fire up search and replace in regex mode
  3. Search for "^", replace with "#"
Of course you need a decent editor. The other way round should be obvious ;).


holli, /regexed monk/
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Re^3: top ten things every Perl hacker should know
by xdg (Monsignor) on Mar 16, 2006 at 23:48 UTC

    Or better yet, teach the editor to do 1, 2 and 3 (and the inverse) as a macro.

    And for those without a decent editor wondering what to do, I assume the original reference was about using Pod:

    =begin comment

# lots of code here

=end comment

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    -xdg

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Re^3: top ten things every Perl hacker should know
by johngg (Canon) on Mar 17, 2006 at 14:09 UTC
    At the risk of starting up a whole new discussion, my vote for a decent editor goes to nedit.

    Cheers,

    JohnGG

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