Re: Record Separator affecting Regex

[jdporter]

The problem is that comments and statements are terminated by two different things, and you can expect to see the two types of elements intermingled.

What I would do, if the file isn't grotesquely huge, is read it all into $_, remove the comments, and then split.

    $_ = <DATA>;
    s/^#.*//gm;           # <b>updated</b>
    my @lines = split /;\n+/;

[Kozz]

Yes, this would have been much easier, but unfortunately, the file is 23MB uncompressed. :(

But thanks for the info - that's another way I might have tried had the file been smaller.