Re: How do I strip lines prefixed by a

[Fastolfe]

Generally when I'm reading files that have the potential for comments or blank lines, a simple regular expression or two does the trick:

while (<DATA>) {
   s/\s#.*//;
   next unless /\S/;
   do_something($_);
}

__DATA__
# This is my file
# with a few lines of comments

data=here        # another comment
more=data
                 # more comments
and=more

# end of file

[Fastolfe]

That first regexp should have read: s/\s*#.*//;