How do I enter a multi-line comment in Perl

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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

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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

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POD is the official way to do multi line comments in Perl     see Multi-line comments in perl code and Better ways to make multi-line comments in Perl for more detail    From faq perl org perlfaq7    How can I comment out a large block of Perl code       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- gt 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 with comment  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- gt new     ignored sub      wont be assigned   37    end comment   cut

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