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Presents your PERL E-NEWSLETTER for April 11, 2002 COMMENT OUT CODE WITH POD Commenting out large blocks of code can be more laborious in Perl than in C and C++ because Perl doesn't have a multiline comment operator like '/* .. */'. A decent editor with macros could make this a little easier, but a quick and simple way to achieve the same result is to use the documentation format (POD) to hide the lines you want to comment out. To prevent the code from being executed, enclose the lines with an opening '=begin' line and closing '=end' and '=cut' lines. The '=begin' and '=end' directives are not interpreted as POD text, so they won't show up in your POD documentation. Here's an example: # code here.. =begin comment # lots of code here effectively commented out =end comment =cut # more code here.. -- ------------------------------- - Teresa Raymond - - Mariposa Net - - http://www.mariposanet.com - ------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
