how to ignore blank lines and comment lines using awk

Question

i am writing this code:

awk -F\'=\' \'!/^$/{arr[$1]=$2}END{for (x in arr) {print x\"=\"arr[x]}}\' 1.txt 2.txt

this code ignore blank lines,

Answer 1

Change !/^$/ to

!/^($|#)/

or

!/^($|[:space:]*#)/

if you want to disregard whitespace before the #.