Comments in Perl

[cloverm]

Is there a way to comment out multiple lines in Perl? I'm looking for the equivalent of /* ... */ in C. It's a pain to put the # sign in front of a lot of lines...

[gorn]

qq# 
if($blah) {
 foo();
 $blah + 10;
}
#;

not the best... but it works. qq#blah#; means "blah" so you can use anything not just #.

so this really just turns it into a string.

[Ashcrow]

#'s are not so bad when using VIM.

[Feztaa]

Yeah, just hit CTRL-V, then move your cursor down to where you want to end the comments, then press I, then #, then Esc. Now all those lines are commented. You can do CTRL-V, move down, and x to delete the comments, too.

Ain't Vim great?

[cloverm]

Yeah, just hit CTRL-V, then move your cursor down to where you want to end the comments, then press I, then #, then Esc. Now all those lines are commented. You can do CTRL-V, move down, and x to delete the comments, too.

Ain't Vim great?

Vim is probably great, but I don't use it. The question wasn't really how to put the # sign in front of multiple lines, but what is the equivalent of /* ... */ in Perl.

[Ashcrow]

use POD;

=cut

This is what it
would look like for
multiple lines of coments
in perl.

=cut

OR

<<Comment;
I am a comment
comment comment yay
Comment