removing perl comments

[brendag4]

Does anyone know of a utility to remove comments from Perl code?

Thanks :-)

Brenda

[Dan Kaplan]

Yeah, find and manual replace.  

Dlete

[Stephen]

i think you might find that any utility that strips comments in perl requires you to code according to certain rules. otherwise how do you unambiguously determine that a # isn't part of a string that is a piece of your code?

so some thinking generally has to go on before you start stripping out everything on a line that follows a #. otherwise that formerly-working code could quickly become uncompilable.
 
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[sumengen]

Perl compiler itself is doing a pretty good job for stripping out the comments
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[This message has been edited by sumengen (edited 07-18-00@01:09 am)]