Posted by Steve Buehler on 03/25/05 21:50

Ok. I am really bad at regular expressions. I have to search through some
files and put the contents into an array. A file could look like this:
$aliases=`cat /home/virtual/site$site_id/fst/etc/mail/local-host-names`;
----start of file----
# local-host-names - include all aliases for your machine here.
# Please do not add any domain names in this file.
domain.net
domain.com
----end of file----

In $aliases, I need to ignore the lines that start with a # sign. It is
possible, but not probably that it will be more than just the first 2 lines
and possible that it isn't even the first two lines. After done, $aliases
should have just the two domain names in it. One per line. Then I need to
loop through the lines in $aliases and do stuff with each line. Any help
would be GREATLY appreciated. It would also be fine to just do a loop that
checks each line. Since I guess that would be quicker. If the line starts
with a #, then ignore it, otherwise, do some other stuff.

Thanks
Steve

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