Hi,
other monks have told you that such a thing as a multiline comment does not exist in Perl, but that you could do with someting like

=for comment
commented region
=cut
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I would just had mi 5cents (of euro) to this. 'block' comments with a start and a stop delimiter, as /* and */ in C, are not (IMHO) a good thing©. Ever tryied to comment out using /* */ a region which already contained comments of its own? That's weird to do and even worst to undo...On the other had, til-the-end-of-the-line style comments are easy to use, with a good enough editor...

Cheers