> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 5:53 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: can not filter out commentary lines with reg-exps
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I need to parse an ASCII file which first rows are comments.
> Those rows
> are marked by a '#' at their beginning.
> I try to filter them out by
>
> while( <$FH> =~ m{\#*} )
> {}
Try this
while( <$FH> =~ m{\#+} )
* Match 0 or more times
+ Match 1 or more times
perldoc perlre
>
> But this does not work. The loop does never stop.
> What goes wrong? I am really confused!
>
> Regards and thanks a lot for your help in advance,
> Harald
>
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