Harald wrote:
> Hi,
Hello,
> I need to parse an ASCII file which first rows are comments. Those rows
> are marked by a '#' at their beginning.
You need to use '^' instead of '\' to indicate the beginning of a line.
> I try to filter them out by
>
> while( <$FH> =~ m{\#*} )
> {}
>
> But this does not work. The loop does never stop.
> What goes wrong? I am really confused!
Your pattern says to match zero or more of the '#' character and every line in
your file has at least zero '#' characters. You want something like:
1 while <$FH> =~ /^#/;
John
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