Re: How do I strip lines prefixed by a

Simplest is to:

while (<INFILE>) {
    next if /^#/;
    # or
    next if substr($_,0,1) eq '#';
    $content .= $_;
};
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RE: Answer: How do I strip lines prefixed by a by Coplan (Pilgrim) on Oct 25, 2000 at 07:37 UTC
Ok....that works great! But I am (unfortunately) a beginner Perl Hacker. So could you (or someone) please explain what exactly you did? I think it's the ^ that confuses me a bit.	[reply]
RE: RE: Answer: How do I strip lines prefixed by a by runrig (Abbot) on Oct 25, 2000 at 07:40 UTC
see perlman:perlre	[reply]


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