Possible Duplicate:
What are the common workarounds for multi-line comments in Perl?
How do I add a multi-line comment to Perl source code?
Possible Duplicate:
What are the common workarounds for multi-line comments in Perl?
How do I add a multi-line comment to Perl source code?
POD is the official way to do multi line comments in Perl,
From faq.perl.org[perlfaq7]
The quick-and-dirty way to comment out more than one line of Perl is to surround those lines with Pod directives. You have to put these directives at the beginning of the line and somewhere where Perl expects a new statement (so not in the middle of statements like the # comments). You end the comment with
=cut
, ending the Pod section:
=pod
my $object = NotGonnaHappen->new();
ignored_sub();
$wont_be_assigned = 37;
=cut
The quick-and-dirty method only works well when you don't plan to leave the commented code in the source. If a Pod parser comes along, your multiline comment is going to show up in the Pod translation. A better way hides it from Pod parsers as well.
The
=begin
directive can mark a section for a particular purpose. If the Pod parser doesn't want to handle it, it just ignores it. Label the comments withcomment
. End the comment using=end
with the same label. You still need the=cut
to go back to Perl code from the Pod comment:
=begin comment
my $object = NotGonnaHappen->new();
ignored_sub();
$wont_be_assigned = 37;
=end comment
=cut
I found it. Perl has multi-line comments:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
=for comment
Example of multiline comment.
Example of multiline comment.
=cut
print "Multi Line Comment Example \n";