Re: Multiline comment in Perl

I know that =start is not a valid POD command, but it doesn't break the 
program. When I use it, I don't need to use it to add real POD docs, so the 
commands shouldn't be valid.

=head1 NAME
is too long...

Octavian

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John W. Krahn" <[email protected]>
To: "Perl Beginners" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: Multiline comment in Perl


> Octavian Rasnita wrote:
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "sivasakthi" <[email protected]>
>>>
>>> How to comment Multiple lines  in Perl?
>>
>> Perl doesn't have a multiline comment mark.
>>
>> You can use perldoc marks in order to comment what you want, or include 
>> the content in a string, like:
>>
>> Perldoc style:
>>
>> =start
>> Here
>> are the
>> lines you
>> want to comment
>> =cut
>
> $ echo "
>
> =start
> Here
> are the
> lines you
> want to comment
> =cut
>
> " | podchecker
> *** ERROR: Unknown command 'start' at line 3 in file <standard input>
> <&STDIN does not contain any pod commands.
>
>
>
> John
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