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Re: What is the easy way to comment out chunk of Perl Code
by philcrow (Priest) on Nov 18, 2005 at 19:19 UTC
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Well, usually we just run pounds down the leftmost column so other know for sure the code is out of use. This is facilitated in many editors (both inserting and removing).
But if you insist on a short cut that isn't visually distinct through the block try this:
=begin GHOSTCODE
...
=end GHOSTCODE
=cut
This makes the code invisible to the compiler and to perldoc.
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Phil !
Thank you very much
Gasho
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Re: What is the easy way to comment out chunk of Perl Code
by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on Nov 18, 2005 at 19:22 UTC
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Re: What is the easy way to comment out chunk of Perl Code
by kutsu (Priest) on Nov 18, 2005 at 19:24 UTC
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You can do it with POD (Plain Old Documentation). Take a look at POD in 5 minutes or perldoc perlpod.
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Re: What is the easy way to comment out chunk of Perl Code
by jonadab (Parson) on Nov 19, 2005 at 02:42 UTC
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You can also use a single-quoted heredoc for this...
<<'WONKYCODE';
print "This code isn't technically "commented out" per se;
rather, it is interpreted as a string.
However, it won't execute, and because of the single
quotes it also won't interpolate. Assuming that the
code you treat this way is an entire expression (not
part of one), the string will be in void context and
so will have no effect, other than to remind you
that it's still here with a 'useless use of constant
in void context' warning.\n";
WONKYCODE
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Re: What is the easy way to comment out chunk of Perl Code
by thor (Priest) on Nov 18, 2005 at 22:48 UTC
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I typically use POD like this:
=for comment
#your commented code goes here
=cut
A little explanation. The "=for x" directive says that only a processor that's formatting for the x output type should heed what's in the following block. For instance, you could say "=for html" and then put some html markup in the block and it should be rendered only by programs seeking to render html. The nice thing about "=for comment" is that no one will be outputting a "comment" format...:-).
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Re: What is the easy way to comment out chunk of Perl Code
by zentara (Cardinal) on Nov 18, 2005 at 20:08 UTC
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For a quick block disabling, I usually just use
=head1
stuff to be commented
out
=cut
but it probably raises havoc with perldoc, so I manually insert
#
in code that I post.
I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth.
flash japh
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Re: What is the easy way to comment out chunk of Perl Code
by ickyb0d (Monk) on Nov 18, 2005 at 19:22 UTC
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I'm pretty sure there isn't anyway. BUT! If you use vim, there's always vimscripts!
For the vimscript below to work just put it in your .vimrc file. It assumes you have marked a maker 'a' (':mark a' while NOT in insert mode) at the beginning of where you want your un/comment block. Then just scroll down to where you want it to end and type in ',cb#' (while NOT in insert mode) to comment out the block. Alternatively you can type in ',ucb#' to uncomment a block of code.
nmap ,cb# :'a,.s/^/#/gi<CR>:nohl<CR>
nmap ,ucb# :'a,.s/^#//g<CR>:nohl<CR>
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I use the BlockComment plugin for vim which I mapped to _c and _C to comment an uncomment respectively.
It works really well with the highlighting mode that vim uses. For example, go to the start of a block (function, loop, if statement) then hit Shift-V % to highlight the entire block and then _c to comment it out. Or hit Shift-V 20j to highlight the next 20 lines below the cursor, then hit _c to comment or _C to uncomment.
Oh, and it works for many different languages, not just perl.
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Re: What is the easy way to comment out chunk of Perl Code
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 18, 2005 at 23:14 UTC
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if(0)
{
...chunk of Perl code you don't want to run...
}
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The problem with that is that perl is still going to try to compile what's inside the block, so it wouldn't work if you want to outcomment something that doesn't compile, or to outcomment an BEGIN/CHECK/INIT/END block - and it may not work as expected if you outcomment a method that also appears higher up in your inheritance tree.
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Re: What is the easy way to comment out chunk of Perl Code
by holli (Abbot) on Nov 20, 2005 at 09:23 UTC
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Every decent Editor supports Regular Expression Search & Replace. So you can simply mark all lines you want to comment out and replace "^" by "#".
To remove the comments replace "^#" by "".
That way one can also uncomment parts of the outcommented code again without ending up in a mess of "pseudo comment blocks".
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