#!/usr/bin/perl my $file = $ARGV[0]; open(FILE,$file) || die "Cannot open file\n"; my @content=; close FILE; foreach $item(@content){ my $line = $item; chomp($line); my $chunk = substr($line,0,1); if (($chunk ne ';') and ($chunk ne '#')) { if (length($line)>0) {print "$line\n";} } }