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Got a script which Im trying to debug but I cant figure out the meaning of this regex and googling “caret” and “pound” isnt helping.
$line !~ /^#/
Not a complicated question I’m sure but I’m locked away from all my perl books until after xmas!
I know that the !~ means ‘doesnt match…’ of course!
Caret is beginning of line. # is a #. It’s looking for non-comment lines (and assuming comments start in the first column, or at least at the beginning of whatever
lineis).