I tried this:
file=\"myfile\" while read -r line do [[ $line = \\#* ]] && continue \"address=\\$line\\127.0.0.1\" done < \"$file\"
Only one working for me was:
while IFS=$'\n' read line do if [[ "$line" =~ \#.* ]];then logDebug "comment line:$line" else logDebug "normal line:$line" fi done < myFile