From dd11ecd1de3bab7f3f61065637ec2e93fe14690e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stuart <stuartthomas25@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:51:57 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Include block comments when stripping

Added regex to remove comments enclosed in \begin{comment} and \end{comment}.
---
 texprlcount.pl | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/texprlcount.pl b/texprlcount.pl
index f5b397a..2b5fc85 100755
--- a/texprlcount.pl
+++ b/texprlcount.pl
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ (&@)
 
 # We strip comments from the tex file
 $texfile =~ s/[^\\]%[^\n]*//g;
+$texfile =~ s/\\begin\{comment\}.*?\\end\{comment\}//sg;
 
 # We count the number of characters in the abstract
 my $abstract;