Shell Programming and Scripting

I have the following regular expression to pick up comments

Code:

^[Cc*!]

This only checks if the comment tags start at the beginning if the line

I want that for the '!' tag, a comment can start at any column position. I would consider a comment anything after the !

Example

Code:

! This is a comment

       ! This is a comment

int  value    ! This is a comment

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I have come up with this expression for highlighting comments that start with '!' till the end of the line.

Code:

!.*?

How can I put the two commands together?

That is, how can I put

Code:

^[Cc*!]

and

Code:

!.*?

together

Use just

Code:

!.*

. Ex:

Code:

perl -lane '/([^!]*)(!.*)/;print $1."comment-> ".$2;' infile