ch02.032_prob

Perl Best Practices the source code

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## Code fragment (NOT RECOMMENDED) from Chapter 2 of "Perl Best Practices"  ##
##     Copyright (c) O'Reilly & Associates, 2005. All Rights Reserved.      ##
##  See: http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/ask_tim/2001/codepolicy.html  ##
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# Standard modules...
use warnings;
use IO::Prompt;
use Carp;
use English qw( -no_match_vars );
use Data::Alias;
use Readonly;


while (my $line = <>) {
        chomp $line;
        if ( $line =~ s{\A (\s*) -- ([^\n]*) }{$1#$2}xms ) {
                push @comments, $2;
        }
        print $line;
}