Your substitution looks for <-- (you might have wanted <!--) and then matches a single character that's not > or <, followed by -->. Probably not what you want.
A simple approach (although by no means 100% reliable) would be
$question =~ s/<!--.*?-->//sg;
To reliably remove comments from HTML, use HTML::Parser or a related module.
Or, even fancier, use File::Comments:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use File::Comments;
my $stripper = File::Comments->new();
my $stripped = $stripper->stripped("foo.html");
print "$stripped\n";
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Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big>
<blockquote> <br /> <dd>
<dl> <dt> <em> <font>
<h1> <h2> <h3> <h4>
<h5> <h6> <hr /> <i>
<li> <nbsp> <ol> <p>
<small> <strike> <strong>
<sub> <sup> <table>
<td> <th> <tr> <tt>
<u> <ul>
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Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not
<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).
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Want more info? How to link
or How to display code and escape characters
are good places to start.
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