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function strip_block_comments( $test_string ) { |
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$pattern = "/^.*?(\K\/\*.*?\*\/)|^.*?(\K\/\*.*?^.*\*\/)$/mXsus"; |
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return preg_replace( $pattern, '', $test_string ); |
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* Rahoo |
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Revision as of 13:57, 16 August 2018
You are encouraged to solve this task according to the task description, using any language you may know.
A block comment begins with a beginning delimiter and ends with a ending delimiter, including the delimiters. These delimiters are often multi-character sequences.
- Task
Strip block comments from program text (of a programming language much like classic C).
Your demos should at least handle simple, non-nested and multi-line block comment delimiters.
The block comment delimiters are the two-character sequence:
- /* (beginning delimiter)
- */ (ending delimiter)
Sample text for stripping:
/**
* Some comments
* longer comments here that we can parse.
*
* Rahoo
*/
function subroutine() {
a = /* inline comment */ b + c ;
}
/*/ <-- tricky comments */
/**
* Another comment.
*/
function something() {
}
- Extra credit
Ensure that the stripping code is not hard-coded to the particular delimiters described above, but instead allows the caller to specify them. (If your language supports them, optional parameters may be useful for this.)
- Related task
Ada
strip.adb: <lang Ada>with Ada.Strings.Fixed; with Ada.Strings.Unbounded; with Ada.Text_IO; with Ada.Command_Line;
procedure Strip is
use Ada.Strings.Unbounded;
procedure Print_Usage is
begin
Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line ("Usage:");
Ada.Text_IO.New_Line;
Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line (" strip <file> [<opening> [<closing>]]");
Ada.Text_IO.New_Line;
Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line (" file: file to strip");
Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line (" opening: string for opening comment");
Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line (" closing: string for closing comment");
Ada.Text_IO.New_Line;
end Print_Usage;
Opening_Pattern : Unbounded_String := To_Unbounded_String ("/*");
Closing_Pattern : Unbounded_String := To_Unbounded_String ("*/");
Inside_Comment : Boolean := False;
function Strip_Comments (From : String) return String is
use Ada.Strings.Fixed;
Opening_Index : Natural;
Closing_Index : Natural;
Start_Index : Natural := From'First;
begin
if Inside_Comment then
Start_Index :=
Index (Source => From, Pattern => To_String (Closing_Pattern));
if Start_Index < From'First then
return "";
end if;
Inside_Comment := False;
Start_Index := Start_Index + Length (Closing_Pattern);
end if;
Opening_Index :=
Index
(Source => From,
Pattern => To_String (Opening_Pattern),
From => Start_Index);
if Opening_Index < From'First then
return From (Start_Index .. From'Last);
else
Closing_Index :=
Index
(Source => From,
Pattern => To_String (Closing_Pattern),
From => Opening_Index + Length (Opening_Pattern));
if Closing_Index > 0 then
return From (Start_Index .. Opening_Index - 1) &
Strip_Comments
(From (
Closing_Index + Length (Closing_Pattern) .. From'Last));
else
Inside_Comment := True;
return From (Start_Index .. Opening_Index - 1);
end if;
end if;
end Strip_Comments;
File : Ada.Text_IO.File_Type;
begin
if Ada.Command_Line.Argument_Count < 1
or else Ada.Command_Line.Argument_Count > 3
then
Print_Usage;
return;
end if;
if Ada.Command_Line.Argument_Count > 1 then
Opening_Pattern := To_Unbounded_String (Ada.Command_Line.Argument (2));
if Ada.Command_Line.Argument_Count > 2 then
Closing_Pattern :=
To_Unbounded_String (Ada.Command_Line.Argument (3));
else
Closing_Pattern := Opening_Pattern;
end if;
end if;
Ada.Text_IO.Open
(File => File,
Mode => Ada.Text_IO.In_File,
Name => Ada.Command_Line.Argument (1));
while not Ada.Text_IO.End_Of_File (File => File) loop
declare
Line : constant String := Ada.Text_IO.Get_Line (File);
begin
Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line (Strip_Comments (Line));
end;
end loop;
Ada.Text_IO.Close (File => File);
end Strip;</lang> output:
function subroutine() {
a = b + c ;
}
function something() {
}
AutoHotkey
<lang AutoHotkey>code = (
/**
* Some comments
* longer comments here that we can parse.
*
* Rahoo
*/
function subroutine() {
a = /* inline comment */ b + c ;
}
/*/ <-- tricky comments */
/**
* Another comment.
*/
function something() {
}
)
- Open-Close Comment delimiters
openC:="/*" closeC:="*/"
- Make it "Regex-Safe"
openC:=RegExReplace(openC,"(\*|\^|\?|\\|\+|\.|\!|\{|\}|\[|\]|\$|\|)","\$0") closeC:=RegExReplace(closeC,"(\*|\^|\?|\\|\+|\.|\!|\{|\}|\[|\]|\$|\|)","\$0")
- Display final result
MsgBox % sCode := RegExReplace(code,"s)(" . openC . ").*?(" . closeC . ")")</lang>
function subroutine() {
a = b + c ;
}
function something() {
}
BBC BASIC
<lang bbcbasic> infile$ = "C:\sample.c"
outfile$ = "C:\stripped.c"
PROCstripblockcomments(infile$, outfile$, "/*", "*/")
END
DEF PROCstripblockcomments(infile$, outfile$, start$, finish$)
LOCAL infile%, outfile%, comment%, test%, A$
infile% = OPENIN(infile$)
IF infile%=0 ERROR 100, "Could not open input file"
outfile% = OPENOUT(outfile$)
IF outfile%=0 ERROR 100, "Could not open output file"
WHILE NOT EOF#infile%
A$ = GET$#infile% TO 10
REPEAT
IF comment% THEN
test% = INSTR(A$, finish$)
IF test% THEN
A$ = MID$(A$, test% + LEN(finish$))
comment% = FALSE
ENDIF
ELSE
test% = INSTR(A$, start$)
IF test% THEN
BPUT#outfile%, LEFT$(A$, test%-1);
A$ = MID$(A$, test% + LEN(start$))
comment% = TRUE
ENDIF
ENDIF
UNTIL test%=0
IF NOT comment% BPUT#outfile%, A$
ENDWHILE
CLOSE #infile%
CLOSE #outfile%
ENDPROC</lang>
Output file:
function subroutine() {
a = b + c ;
}
function something() {
}
C
<lang C>#include <stdio.h>
- include <string.h>
- include <stdlib.h>
const char *ca = "/*", *cb = "*/"; int al = 2, bl = 2;
char *loadfile(const char *fn) {
FILE *f = fopen(fn, "rb"); int l; char *s;
if (f != NULL) {
fseek(f, 0, SEEK_END); l = ftell(f); s = malloc(l+1); rewind(f); if (s) fread(s, 1, l, f); fclose(f);
} return s;
}
void stripcomments(char *s) {
char *a, *b; int len = strlen(s) + 1;
while ((a = strstr(s, ca)) != NULL) {
b = strstr(a+al, cb); if (b == NULL) break; b += bl; memmove(a, b, len-(b-a));
}
}
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
const char *fn = "input.txt"; char *s;
if (argc >= 2)
fn = argv[1];
s = loadfile(fn);
if (argc == 4) {
al = strlen(ca = argv[2]); bl = strlen(cb = argv[3]);
} stripcomments(s); puts(s); free(s); return 0;
}</lang>
- Usage
Specify an input file via the first command line argument, and optionally specify comment opening and closing delimiters with the next two args, or defaults of /* and */ are assumed.
- Output
function subroutine() {
a = b + c ;
}
function something() {
}
C++
<lang cpp>#include <string>
- include <iostream>
- include <iterator>
- include <fstream>
- include <boost/regex.hpp>
int main( ) {
std::ifstream codeFile( "samplecode.txt" ) ;
if ( codeFile ) {
boost::regex commentre( "/\\*.*?\\*/" ) ;//comment start and end, and as few characters in between as possible
std::string my_erase( "" ) ; //erase them
std::string stripped ;
std::string code( (std::istreambuf_iterator<char>( codeFile ) ) ,
std::istreambuf_iterator<char>( ) ) ;
codeFile.close( ) ;
stripped = boost::regex_replace( code , commentre , my_erase ) ;
std::cout << "Code unstripped:\n" << stripped << std::endl ;
return 0 ;
}
else {
std::cout << "Could not find code file!" << std::endl ;
return 1 ;
}
}</lang> Output:
Code unstripped:
function subroutine() {
a = b + c ;
}
function something() {
}
C#
<lang Csharp>using System;
class Program
{
private static string BlockCommentStrip(string commentStart, string commentEnd, string sampleText)
{
while (sampleText.IndexOf(commentStart) > -1 && sampleText.IndexOf(commentEnd, sampleText.IndexOf(commentStart) + commentStart.Length) > -1)
{
int start = sampleText.IndexOf(commentStart);
int end = sampleText.IndexOf(commentEnd, start + commentStart.Length);
sampleText = sampleText.Remove(
start,
(end + commentEnd.Length) - start
);
}
return sampleText;
}
}</lang>
Clojure
<lang Clojure>(defn comment-strip [txt & args]
(let [args (conj {:delim ["/*" "*/"]} (apply hash-map args)) ; This is the standard way of doing keyword/optional arguments in Clojure
[opener closer] (:delim args)]
(loop [out "", txt txt, delim-count 0] ; delim-count is needed to handle nested comments
(let [[hdtxt resttxt] (split-at (count opener) txt)] ; This splits "/* blah blah */" into hdtxt="/*" and restxt="blah blah */"
(printf "hdtxt=%8s resttxt=%8s out=%8s txt=%16s delim-count=%s\n" (apply str hdtxt) (apply str resttxt) out (apply str txt) delim-count) (cond (empty? hdtxt) (str out (apply str txt)) (= (apply str hdtxt) opener) (recur out resttxt (inc delim-count)) (= (apply str hdtxt) closer) (recur out resttxt (dec delim-count)) (= delim-count 0)(recur (str out (first txt)) (rest txt) delim-count) true (recur out (rest txt) delim-count))))))</lang>
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D
<lang d>import std.algorithm, std.regex;
string[2] separateComments(in string txt,
in string cpat0, in string cpat1) {
int[2] plen; // to handle /*/
int i, j; // cursors
bool inside; // is inside comment?
// pre-compute regex here if desired //auto r0 = regex(cpat0); //auto r1 = regex(cpat1); //enum rct = ctRegex!(r"\n|\r");
bool advCursor() {
auto mo = match(txt[i .. $], inside ? cpat1 : cpat0);
if (mo.empty)
return false;
plen[inside] = max(0, plen[inside], mo.front[0].length);
j = i + mo.pre.length; // got comment head
if (inside)
j += mo.front[0].length; // or comment tail
// special adjust for \n\r
if (!match(mo.front[0], r"\n|\r").empty)
j--;
return true;
}
string[2] result;
while (true) {
if (!advCursor())
break;
result[inside] ~= txt[i .. j]; // save slice of result
// handle /*/ pattern
if (inside && (j - i < plen[0] + plen[1])) {
i = j;
if (!advCursor())
break;
result[inside] ~= txt[i .. j]; // save result again
}
i = j; // advance cursor
inside = !inside; // toggle search type
}
if (inside)
throw new Exception("Mismatched Comment");
result[inside] ~= txt[i .. $]; // save rest(non-comment)
return result;
}
void main() {
import std.stdio;
static void showResults(in string e, in string[2] pair) {
writeln("===Original text:\n", e);
writeln("\n\n===Text without comments:\n", pair[0]);
writeln("\n\n===The stripped comments:\n", pair[1]);
}
// First example ------------------------------
immutable ex1 = ` /**
* Some comments
* longer comments here that we can parse.
*
* Rahoo
*/
function subroutine() {
a = /* inline comment */ b + c ;
}
/*/ <-- tricky comments */
/**
* Another comment.
*/
function something() {
}`;
showResults(ex1, separateComments(ex1, `/\*`, `\*/`));
// Second example ------------------------------
writeln("\n");
immutable ex2 = "apples, pears # and bananas
apples, pears; and bananas "; // test for line comment
showResults(ex2, separateComments(ex2, `#|;`, `[\n\r]|$`));
}</lang>
- Output:
===Original text:
/**
* Some comments
* longer comments here that we can parse.
*
* Rahoo
*/
function subroutine() {
a = /* inline comment */ b + c ;
}
/*/ <-- tricky comments */
/**
* Another comment.
*/
function something() {
}
===Text without comments:
function subroutine() {
a = b + c ;
}
function something() {
}
===The stripped comments:
/**
* Some comments
* longer comments here that we can parse.
*
* Rahoo
*//* inline comment *//*/ <-- tricky comments *//**
* Another comment.
*/
===Original text:
apples, pears # and bananas
apples, pears; and bananas
===Text without comments:
apples, pears
apples, pears
===The stripped comments:
# and bananas; and bananas
Fortran
As ever, there arises the question "How long is a piece of string?" as having once abandoned decks of cards, there is no longer a definite upper bound for the length of a record. So, as ever, the classic response of "surely big enough", here 6666 characters. F90 enables the creation of a protocol for varying-length strings, and F2000 formalises this, but, there is no provision for reading a record of input into a variable that is made large enough for the record just being read, as is almost the case for pl/1 - where the receiving variable would be declared ACARD CHARACTER(6666) VARYING and the READ statement sets the length according to what has been read - but only up to the pre-specified upper limit.
So, a reversion to F77 style (which introduced CHARACTER variables) and so, not employing the MODULE protocol of F90 to share information - COMMON statements instead. Though not purely F77 as there is the PARAMETER statement, and the usage of I0 format. The Q format code was a common extension to F77, and reports on the number of characters as yet unread in the input record. This allows the receiving variable to be sized to fit, as in ACARD(1:LC) except that to prevent overflow, LC appears via MIN(LC,LOTS). If this was not done, then the receiving variable would be padded to the end with spaces at a cost in cpu time to supply, and then to scan backwards to find the last non-blank. This would also trim off any trailing spaces that were in the input record.
If the text delimiters were single characters only, similar to text literals, it would be easy: scan the text character by character and change state accordingly, though there would be complications if say two quote characters in a row were to signify a single internal quote. A DO-loop would do for the scan. But with multi-character delimiters the scan would have to lurch over a match, and fiddling the index variable of a DO-loop is frowned upon. So instead, slog it out. And be annoyed afresh by the indeterminacy of boolean expression evaluation of the form (A and B) or (A or B) in the context where the test is (safe and test) because the test might provoke an out-of-bounds fault if not safely within bounds. Like, THIS is being tested against the text in ACARD, but it must not compare beyond the end of the text in ACARD.
The removal of delimited text is taken literally: an incoming card's content might be entirely within a block comment and so be entirely rejected; if so, a null line results in ALINE, and it is not written to the output file. In other words, lines of block comment are not preserved as blank lines, nor as null lines, they are not there. Only if a line contains text outside of a block comment will it survive. Outside delimited block comments, spaces are just as valid as any other symbol, and are preserved. So, for example, it is a = b + c ; not a = b + c ; - two spaces after the = sign. Similarly, trailing spaces on a line survive - though I have UltraEdit set to trim trailing spaces and it is not clear whether the example source is to be regarded as containing them or not.
The presence of the delimiters is determined without context, for instance irrespective of whether or not they are inside quoted strings. They cannot be split across lines and recognised, even though in Fortran itself such splitting is permissible. If this process is applied to its own source file, then the only change is to produce CALL UNBLOCK(""), which could be avoided if the statement were to be CALL UNBLOCK("/"//"*","*/") so that the starting delimiter would not be self-identifying. The ending delimiter could be treated in the same way if there was fear that a block comment might have been started earlier in the source file.
A feature of Fortran's character comparison is that trailing spaces are ignored, so that "x " and "x " and "x" are all deemed equal. Unfortunate choices of starting and ending delimiter texts can be made if they contain characters in common.
<lang Fortran>
SUBROUTINE UNBLOCK(THIS,THAT) !Removes block comments bounded by THIS and THAT.
Copies from file INF to file OUT, record by record, except skipping null output records.
CHARACTER*(*) THIS,THAT !Starting and ending markers.
INTEGER LOTS !How long is a piece of string?
PARAMETER (LOTS = 6666) !This should do.
CHARACTER*(LOTS) ACARD,ALINE !Scratchpads.
INTEGER LC,LL,L !Lengths.
INTEGER L1,L2 !Scan fingers.
INTEGER NC,NL !Might as well count records read and written.
LOGICAL BLAH !A state: in or out of a block comment.
INTEGER MSG,KBD,INF,OUT !I/O unit numbers.
COMMON /IODEV/MSG,KBD,INF,OUT !Thus.
NC = 0 !No cards read in.
NL = 0 !No lines written out.
BLAH = .FALSE. !And we're not within a comment.
Chug through the input.
10 READ(INF,11,END = 100) LC,ACARD(1:MIN(LC,LOTS)) !Yum.
11 FORMAT (Q,A) !Sez: how much remains (Q), then, characters (A).
NC = NC + 1 !A card has been read.
IF (LC.GT.LOTS) THEN !Paranoia.
WRITE (MSG,12) NC,LC,LOTS !Scream.
12 FORMAT ("Record ",I0," has length ",I0,"! My limit is ",I0)
LC = LOTS !Stay calm, and carry on.
END IF !None of this should happen.
Chew through ACARD according to mood.
LL = 0 !No output yet.
L2 = 0 !Syncopation. Where the previous sniff ended.
20 L1 = L2 + 1 !The start of what we're looking at.
IF (L1.LE.LC) THEN !Anything left?
L2 = L1 !Yes. This is the probe.
IF (BLAH) THEN !So, what's our mood?
21 IF (L2 + LEN(THAT) - 1 .LE. LC) THEN !We're skipping stuff.
IF (ACARD(L2:L2 + LEN(THAT) - 1).EQ.THAT) THEN !An ender yet?
BLAH = .FALSE. !Yes!
L2 = L2 + LEN(THAT) - 1 !Finger its final character.
GO TO 20 !And start a new advance.
END IF !But if that wasn't an ender,
L2 = L2 + 1 !Advance one.
GO TO 21 !And try again.
END IF !By here, insufficient text remains to match THAT, so we're finished with ACARD.
ELSE !Otherwise, if we're not in a comment, we're looking at grist.
22 IF (L2 + LEN(THIS) - 1 .LE. LC) THEN !Enough text to match a comment starter?
IF (ACARD(L2:L2 + LEN(THIS) - 1).EQ.THIS) THEN !Yes. Does it?
BLAH = .TRUE. !Yes!
L = L2 - L1 !Recalling where this state started.
ALINE(LL + 1:LL + L) = ACARD(L1:L2 - 1) !Copy the non-BLAH text.
LL = LL + L !L2 fingers the first of THIS.
L2 = L2 + LEN(THIS) - 1 !Finger the last matching THIS.
GO TO 20 !And resume.
END IF !But if that wasn't a comment starter,
L2 = L2 + 1 !Advance one.
GO TO 22 !And try again.
END IF !But if there remains insufficient to match THIS
L = LC - L1 + 1 !Then the remainder of the line is grist.
ALINE(LL + 1:LL + L) = ACARD(L1:LC) !So grab it.
LL = LL + L !And count it in.
END IF !By here, we're finished witrh ACARD.
END IF !So much for ACARD.
Cast forth some output.
IF (LL.GT.0) THEN !If there is any.
WRITE (OUT,23) ALINE(1:LL) !There is.
23 FORMAT (">",A,"<") !Just text, but with added bounds.
NL = NL + 1 !Count a line.
END IF !So much for output.
GO TO 10 !Perhaps there is some more input.
Completed.
100 WRITE (MSG,101) NC,NL !Be polite.
101 FORMAT (I0," read, ",I0," written.")
END !No attention to context, such as quoted strings.
PROGRAM TEST
INTEGER MSG,KBD,INF,OUT
COMMON /IODEV/MSG,KBD,INF,OUT
KBD = 5
MSG = 6
INF = 10
OUT = 11
OPEN (INF,FILE="Source.txt",STATUS="OLD",ACTION="READ")
OPEN (OUT,FILE="Src.txt",STATUS="REPLACE",ACTION="WRITE")
CALL UNBLOCK("/*","*/")
END !All open files are closed on exit..
</lang>
Output: the report is "16 read, 8 written." And in the output file appears...
> <
> function subroutine() {<
> a = b + c ;<
> }<
> <
> <
> function something() {<
> }<
Where for expository purposes the > ... < mark the bounds of the surviving text, thus showing surviving spaces.
Once one has an axe in one's hands, everything looks like a tree. A slight variation produces the following stump:
> <
> !No attention to context, such as quoted strings.<
> PROGRAM TEST<
> INTEGER MSG,KBD,INF,OUT<
> COMMON /IODEV/MSG,KBD,INF,OUT<
> KBD = 5<
> MSG = 6<
> INF = 10<
> OUT = 11<
> OPEN (INF,FILE="Laconic.for",STATUS="OLD",ACTION="READ")<
> OPEN (OUT,FILE="Src.txt",STATUS="REPLACE",ACTION="WRITE")<
> CALL UNBLOCK("")<
> END !All open files are closed on exit..<
Where the source statement is CALL UNBLOCK("SUBROUTINE","END ") Note that if the ending delimiter were to be "END" there would be trouble. While "end" in the commentary would be missed because I use capitals for Fortran source but normal for commentary, there are plenty of other "END" sequences. Using "END " still would not work because of END IF, but "END " does work - once I added a comment on the line so that the line doesn't end with "END", and, used spaces rather than a tab after the END.
F90 allows the syntax END SUBROUTINE UNBLOCK (and insists on it within a MODULE) but F77 does not, otherwise the statement could have been CALL UNBLOCK("SUBROUTINE","END SUBROUTINE") which would be rather more structured.
F#
Using .NET's regex counter feature to match nested comments. If comments here are nested, they have to be correctly balanced. <lang fsharp>open System open System.Text.RegularExpressions
let balancedComments opening closing =
new Regex(
String.Format("""
{0} # An outer opening delimiter
(?> # efficiency: no backtracking here
{0} (?<LEVEL>) # An opening delimiter, one level down
|
{1} (?<-LEVEL>) # A closing delimiter, one level up
|
(?! {0} | {1} ) . # With negative lookahead: Anything but delimiters
)* # As many times as we see these
(?(LEVEL)(?!)) # Fail, unless on level 0 here
{1} # Outer closing delimiter """, Regex.Escape(opening), Regex.Escape(closing)),
RegexOptions.IgnorePatternWhitespace ||| RegexOptions.Singleline)
[<EntryPoint>] let main args =
let sample = """
/**
* Some comments
* longer comments here that we can parse.
*
* Rahoo
*/
function subroutine() {
a = /* inline comment */ b + c ;
}
/*/ <-- tricky comments */
/**
* Another comment.
* /* nested balanced
*/ */
function something() {
}
"""
let balancedC = balancedComments "/*" "*/"
printfn "%s" (balancedC.Replace(sample, ""))
0</lang>
Output
function subroutine() {
a = b + c ;
}
function something() {
}
Go
For the extra credit: No optional parameters in Go, but documented below is an efficient technique for letting the caller specify the delimiters. <lang go>package main
import (
"fmt" "strings"
)
// idiomatic to name a function newX that allocates an object, initializes it, // and returns it ready to use. the object in this case is a closure. func newStripper(start, end string) func(string) string {
// default to c-style block comments
if start == "" || end == "" {
start, end = "/*", "*/"
}
// closes on variables start, end.
return func(source string) string {
for {
cs := strings.Index(source, start)
if cs < 0 {
break
}
ce := strings.Index(source[cs+2:], end)
if ce < 0 {
break
}
source = source[:cs] + source[cs+ce+4:]
}
return source
}
}
func main() {
// idiomatic is that zero values indicate to use meaningful defaults
stripC := newStripper("", "")
// strip function now defined and can be called any number of times
// without respecifying delimiters
fmt.Println(stripC(` /**
* Some comments
* longer comments here that we can parse.
*
* Rahoo
*/
function subroutine() {
a = /* inline comment */ b + c ;
}
/*/ <-- tricky comments */
/**
* Another comment.
*/
function something() {
}`))
}</lang>
Groovy
<lang groovy>def code = """
/**
* Some comments
* longer comments here that we can parse.
*
* Rahoo
*/
function subroutine() {
a = /* inline comment */ b + c ;
}
/*/ <-- tricky comments */
/**
* Another comment.
*/
function something() {
}
"""
println ((code =~ "(?:/\\*(?:[^*]|(?:\\*+[^*/]))*\\*+/)|(?://.*)").replaceAll())</lang>
Haskell
THE FOLLOWING SOLUTION IS WRONG, as it does not take string literals into account. For example: <lang Haskell>test = "This {- is not the beginning of a block comment" -- Do your homework properly -}</lang> Comment delimiters can be changed by calling stripComments with different start and end parameters. <lang Haskell>import Data.List
stripComments :: String -> String -> String -> String stripComments start end = notComment
where notComment :: String -> String
notComment "" = ""
notComment xs
| start `isPrefixOf` xs = inComment $ drop (length start) xs
| otherwise = head xs:(notComment $ tail xs)
inComment :: String -> String
inComment "" = ""
inComment xs
| end `isPrefixOf` xs = notComment $ drop (length end) xs
| otherwise = inComment $ tail xs
main = interact (stripComments "/*" "*/")</lang> Output:
function subroutine() {
a = b + c ;
}
function something() {
}
Icon and Unicon
If one is willing to concede that the program file will fit in memory, then the following code works: <lang Icon>procedure main()
every (unstripped := "") ||:= !&input || "\n" # Load file as one string write(stripBlockComment(unstripped,"/*","*/"))
end
procedure stripBlockComment(s1,s2,s3) #: strip comments between s2-s3 from s1
result := ""
s1 ? {
while result ||:= tab(find(s2)) do {
move(*s2)
tab(find(s3)|0) # or end of string
move(*s3)
}
return result || tab(0)
}
end</lang> Otherwise, the following handles an arbitrary length input: <lang Icon>procedure main()
every writes(stripBlockComment(!&input,"/*","*/"))
end
procedure stripBlockComment(s,s2,s3)
static inC # non-null when inside comment
(s||"\n") ? while not pos(0) do {
if /inC then
if inC := 1(tab(find(s2))\1, move(*s2)) then suspend inC
else return tab(0)
else if (tab(find(s3))\1,move(*s3)) then inC := &null
else fail
}
end</lang>
J
<lang j>strip=:#~1 0 _1*./@:(|."0 1)2>4{"1(5;(0,"0~".;._2]0 :0);'/*'i.a.)&;:
1 0 0 0 2 0 2 3 2 0 2 2
)</lang> Example data: <lang j>example=: 0 :0
/**
* Some comments
* longer comments here that we can parse.
*
* Rahoo
*/
function subroutine() {
a = /* inline comment */ b + c ;
}
/*/ <-- tricky comments */
/**
* Another comment.
*/
function something() {
}
)</lang> Example use: <lang j> strip example
function subroutine() {
a = b + c ;
}
function something() {
}</lang>
Here is a version which allows the delimiters to be passed as an optional left argument as a pair of strings: <lang j>stripp=:3 :0
('/*';'*/') stripp y
'open close'=. x marks=. (+./(-i._1+#open,close)|."0 1 open E. y) - close E.&.|. y y #~ -. (+._1&|.) (1 <. 0 >. +)/\.&.|. marks
)</lang>
Java
<lang java>import java.io.*;
public class StripBlockComments{
public static String readFile(String filename) {
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filename)); try { StringBuilder fileContents = new StringBuilder(); char[] buffer = new char[4096]; while (reader.read(buffer, 0, 4096) > 0) { fileContents.append(buffer); } return fileContents.toString(); } finally { reader.close(); }
}
public static String stripComments(String beginToken, String endToken,
String input) { StringBuilder output = new StringBuilder(); while (true) { int begin = input.indexOf(beginToken); int end = input.indexOf(endToken, begin+beginToken.length()); if (begin == -1 || end == -1) { output.append(input); return output.toString(); } output.append(input.substring(0, begin)); input = input.substring(end + endToken.length()); }
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
if (args.length < 3) { System.out.println("Usage: BeginToken EndToken FileToProcess"); System.exit(1); }
String begin = args[0]; String end = args[1]; String input = args[2];
try { System.out.println(stripComments(begin, end, readFile(input))); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); System.exit(1); }
}
}</lang>
jq
Note: A version of jq with gsub/3 is required to compile the function defined in this section.
The filter strip_block_comments/2 as defined here does not attempt to recognize comments-within-comments. <lang jq>def strip_block_comments(open; close):
def deregex:
reduce ("\\\\", "\\*", "\\^", "\\?", "\\+", "\\.",
"\\!", "\\{", "\\}", "\\[", "\\]", "\\$", "\\|" ) as $c
(.; gsub($c; $c));
# "?" => reluctant, "m" => multiline
gsub( (open|deregex) + ".*?" + (close|deregex); ""; "m") ;
strip_block_comments("/*"; "*/")</lang> Invocation:
$ jq -s -R -r -f Strip_block_comments.jq sample_text_for_stripping.txt
Julia
<lang julia>function _stripcomments(txt::AbstractString, dlm::Tuple{String,String})
"Strips first nest of block comments"
dlml, dlmr = dlm
indx = searchindex(txt, dlml)
if indx > 0
out = IOBuffer()
write(out, txt[1:indx-1])
txt = txt[indx+length(dlml):end]
txt = _stripcomments(txt, dlm)
indx = searchindex(txt, dlmr)
@assert(indx > 0, "cannot find a closer delimiter \"$dlmr\" in $txt")
write(out, txt[indx+length(dlmr):end])
else
out = txt
end
return String(out)
end
function stripcomments(txt::AbstractString, dlm::Tuple{String,String}=("/*", "*/"))
"Strips nests of block comments"
dlml, dlmr = dlm
while contains(txt, dlml)
txt = _stripcomments(txt, dlm)
end
return txt
end
function main()
println("\nNON-NESTED BLOCK COMMENT EXAMPLE:")
smpl = """
/**
- Some comments
- longer comments here that we can parse.
- Rahoo
- /
function subroutine() { a = /* inline comment */ b + c ; } /*/ <-- tricky comments */
/**
- Another comment.
- /
function something() { } """
println(stripcomments(smpl))
println("\nNESTED BLOCK COMMENT EXAMPLE:")
smpl = """
/**
- Some comments
- longer comments here that we can parse.
- Rahoo
- //*
function subroutine() { a = /* inline comment */ b + c ; } /*/ <-- tricky comments */
- /
/**
- Another comment.
- /
function something() { } """
println(stripcomments(smpl))
end
main()</lang>
- Output:
NON-NESTED BLOCK COMMENT EXAMPLE:
function subroutine() {
a = b + c ;
}
function something() {
}
NESTED BLOCK COMMENT EXAMPLE:
function something() {
}
Kotlin
<lang scala>// version 1.1.4-3
val sample = """ /**
* Some comments
* longer comments here that we can parse.
*
* Rahoo
*/
function subroutine() {
a = /* inline comment */ b + c ;
}
/*/ <-- tricky comments */
/**
* Another comment.
*/
function something() {
}
"""
val sample2 = """ ``{
` Some comments
` longer comments here that we can parse.
`
` Rahoo
``}
function subroutine2() {
d = ``{ inline comment ``} e + f ;
}
``{ / <-- tricky comments ``}
``{
` Another comment.
``}
function something2() {
}
"""
fun stripBlockComments(text: String, del1: String = "/*", del2: String = "*/"): String {
val d1 = Regex.escape(del1)
val d2 = Regex.escape(del2)
val r = Regex("""(?s)$d1.*?$d2""")
return text.replace(r, "")
}
fun main(args: Array<String>) {
println(stripBlockComments(sample))
println(stripBlockComments(sample2, "``{", "``}"))
}</lang>
- Output:
function subroutine() {
a = b + c ;
}
function something() {
}
function subroutine2() {
d = e + f ;
}
function something2() {
}
Liberty BASIC
<lang lb>global CRLF$ CRLF$ =chr$( 13) +chr$( 10)
sample$ =" /**"+CRLF$+_ " * Some comments"+CRLF$+_ " * longer comments here that we can parse."+CRLF$+_ " *"+CRLF$+_ " * Rahoo "+CRLF$+_ " */"+CRLF$+_ " function subroutine() {"+CRLF$+_ " a = /* inline comment */ b + c ;"+CRLF$+_ " }"+CRLF$+_ " /*/ <-- tricky comments */"+CRLF$+_ ""+CRLF$+_ " /**"+CRLF$+_ " * Another comment."+CRLF$+_ " */"+CRLF$+_ " function something() {"+CRLF$+_ " }"+CRLF$
startDelim$ ="/*" finishDelim$ ="*/"
print "________________________________" print sample$ print "________________________________" print blockStripped$( sample$, startDelim$, finishDelim$) print "________________________________"
end
function blockStripped$( in$, s$, f$)
for i =1 to len( in$) -len( s$)
if mid$( in$, i, len( s$)) =s$ then
i =i +len( s$)
do
if mid$( in$, i, 2) =CRLF$ then blockStripped$ =blockStripped$ +CRLF$
i =i +1
loop until ( mid$( in$, i, len( f$)) =f$) or ( i =len( in$) -len( f$))
i =i +len( f$) -1
else
blockStripped$ =blockStripped$ +mid$( in$, i, 1)
end if
next i
end function</lang>
function subroutine() {
a = b + c ;
}
function something() {
}
Lua
It is assumed, that the code is in the file "Text1.txt". <lang lua>filename = "Text1.txt"
fp = io.open( filename, "r" ) str = fp:read( "*all" ) fp:close()
stripped = string.gsub( str, "/%*.-%*/", "" ) print( stripped )</lang>
Mathematica
<lang Mathematica>StringReplace[a,"/*"~~Shortest[___]~~"*/" -> ""]
->
function subroutine() {
a = b + c ;
}
function something() {
}</lang>
MATLAB / Octave
<lang Matlab>function str = stripblockcomment(str,startmarker,endmarker)
while(1)
ix1 = strfind(str, startmarker);
if isempty(ix1) return; end;
ix2 = strfind(str(ix1+length(startmarker):end),endmarker);
if isempty(ix2)
str = str(1:ix1(1)-1);
return;
else
str = [str(1:ix1(1)-1),str(ix1(1)+ix2(1)+length(endmarker)+1:end)];
end;
end;
end;</lang> Output:
>>t = ' /**\n * Some comments\n * longer comments here that we can parse.\n *\n * Rahoo \n */\n function subroutine() {\n a = /* inline comment */ b + c ;\n }\n /*/ <-- tricky comments */\n\n /**\n * Another comment.\n */\n function something() {\n }\n'
>>printf(t);
>>printf('=============\n');
>>printf(stripblockcomment(t));
/**
* Some comments
* longer comments here that we can parse.
*
* Rahoo
*/
function subroutine() {
a = /* inline comment */ b + c ;
}
/*/ <-- tricky comments */
/**
* Another comment.
*/
function something() {
}
===============
function subroutine() {
a = b + c ;
}
function something() {
}
Nim
<lang nim>import strutils
proc commentStripper(txt; delim: tuple[l,r: string] = ("/*", "*/")): string =
let i = txt.find(delim.l) if i < 0: return txt
result = if i > 0: txt[0 .. <i] else: "" let tmp = commentStripper(txt[i+delim.l.len .. txt.high]) let j = tmp.find(delim.r) assert j >= 0 result &= tmp[j+delim.r.len .. tmp.high]
echo "NON-NESTED BLOCK COMMENT EXAMPLE:" echo commentStripper("""/**
* Some comments
* longer comments here that we can parse.
*
* Rahoo
*/
function subroutine() {
a = /* inline comment */ b + c ;
}
/*/ <-- tricky comments */
/**
* Another comment.
*/
function something() {
}""")
echo "\nNESTED BLOCK COMMENT EXAMPLE:" echo commentStripper(""" /**
* Some comments
* longer comments here that we can parse.
*
* Rahoo
*//*
function subroutine() {
a = /* inline comment */ b + c ;
}
/*/ <-- tricky comments */
*/
/**
* Another comment.
*/
function something() {
}""")</lang>
Output:
NON-NESTED BLOCK COMMENT EXAMPLE:
function subroutine() {
a = b + c ;
}
function something() {
}
NESTED BLOCK COMMENT EXAMPLE:
function something() {
}
Perl
<lang Perl>#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict ; use warnings ;
open( FH , "<" , "samplecode.txt" ) or die "Can't open file!$!\n" ; my $code = "" ; {
local $/ ; $code = <FH> ; #slurp mode
} close FH ; $code =~ s,/\*.*?\*/,,sg ; print $code . "\n" ;</lang> Output:
function subroutine() {
a = b + c ;
}
function something() {
}
Perl 6
<lang perl6>sample().split(/ '/*' .+? '*/' /).print;
sub sample { ' /**
* Some comments
* longer comments here that we can parse.
*
* Rahoo
*/
function subroutine() {
a = /* inline comment */ b + c ;
}
/*/ <-- tricky comments */
/**
* Another comment.
*/
function something() {
}
'}</lang> Output:
function subroutine() {
a = b + c ;
}
function something() {
}
Phix
<lang Phix>constant test = """
/**
* Some comments
* longer comments here that we can parse.
*
* Rahoo
*/
function subroutine() {
a = /* inline comment */ b + c ;
}
/*/ <-- tricky comments */
/**
* Another comment.
*/
function something() {
}
"""
function strip_comments(string text, startc="/*", endc="*/")
while 1 do
integer startp = match(startc,text)
if startp=0 then exit end if
integer endp = match(endc,text,startp+length(startc))
if endp=0 then
puts(1,"error, aborting...")
abort(0)
end if
text[startp..endp+length(endc)-1] = ""
end while
return text
end function
puts(1,strip_comments(test))</lang>
- Output:
function subroutine() {
a = b + c ;
}
function something() {
}
PHP
<lang PHP> function strip_block_comments( $test_string ) { $pattern = "/^.*?(\K\/\*.*?\*\/)|^.*?(\K\/\*.*?^.*\*\/)$/mXsus"; return preg_replace( $pattern, , $test_string ); }
echo "Result: '" . strip_block_comments( " /**
* Some comments
* longer comments here that we can parse.
*
* Rahoo
*/
function subroutine() {
a = /* inline comment */ b + c ;
}
/*/ <-- tricky comments */
/**
* Another comment.
*/
function something() {
}
" ) . "'"; </lang>
- Output:
Result: '
function subroutine() {
a = b + c ;
}
function something() {
}
'
PicoLisp
<lang PicoLisp>(in "sample.txt"
(while (echo "/*")
(out "/dev/null" (echo "*/")) ) )</lang>
Output:
function subroutine() {
a = b + c ;
}
function something() {
}
PL/I
<lang PL/I>/* A program to remove comments from text. */ strip: procedure options (main); /* 8/1/2011 */
declare text character (80) varying; declare (j, k) fixed binary;
on endfile (sysin) stop;
do forever;
get edit (text) (L);
do until (k = 0);
k = index(text, '/*');
if k > 0 then /* we have a start of comment. */
do;
/* Look for end of comment. */
j = index(text, '*/', k+2);
if j > 0 then
do;
text = substr(text, 1, k-1) ||
substr(text, j+2, length(text)-(j+2)+1);
end;
else
do; /* The comment continues onto the next line. */
put skip list ( substr(text, 1, k-1) );
more: get edit (text) (L);
j = index(text, '*/');
if j = 0 then do; put skip; go to more; end;
text = substr(text, j+2, length(text) - (j+2) + 1);
end;
end;
end;
put skip list (text);
end;
end strip;</lang>
PureBasic
Solution using regular expressions. A procedure to stripBlocks() procedure is defined that will strip comments between any two delimeters. <lang PureBasic>Procedure.s escapeChars(text.s)
Static specialChars.s = "[\^$.|?*+()"
Protected output.s, nextChar.s, i, countChar = Len(text)
For i = 1 To countChar
nextChar = Mid(text, i, 1)
If FindString(specialChars, nextChar, 1)
output + "\" + nextChar
Else
output + nextChar
EndIf
Next
ProcedureReturn output
EndProcedure
Procedure.s stripBlocks(text.s, first.s, last.s)
Protected delimter_1.s = escapeChars(first), delimter_2.s = escapeChars(last) Protected expNum = CreateRegularExpression(#PB_Any, delimter_1 + ".*?" + delimter_2, #PB_RegularExpression_DotAll) Protected output.s = ReplaceRegularExpression(expNum, text, "") FreeRegularExpression(expNum) ProcedureReturn output
EndProcedure
Define source.s source.s = " /**" + #CRLF$ source.s + " * Some comments" + #CRLF$ source.s + " * longer comments here that we can parse." + #CRLF$ source.s + " *" + #CRLF$ source.s + " * Rahoo " + #CRLF$ source.s + " */" + #CRLF$ source.s + " function subroutine() {" + #CRLF$ source.s + " a = /* inline comment */ b + c ;" + #CRLF$ source.s + " }" + #CRLF$ source.s + " /*/ <-- tricky comments */" + #CRLF$ source.s + "" + #CRLF$ source.s + " /**" + #CRLF$ source.s + " * Another comment." + #CRLF$ source.s + " */" + #CRLF$ source.s + " function something() {" + #CRLF$ source.s + " }" + #CRLF$
If OpenConsole()
PrintN("--- source ---")
PrintN(source)
PrintN("--- source with block comments between '/*' and '*/' removed ---")
PrintN(stripBlocks(source, "/*", "*/"))
PrintN("--- source with block comments between '*' and '*' removed ---")
PrintN(stripBlocks(source, "*", "*"))
Print(#CRLF$ + #CRLF$ + "Press ENTER to exit"): Input()
CloseConsole()
EndIf</lang> Sample output:
--- source ---
/**
* Some comments
* longer comments here that we can parse.
*
* Rahoo
*/
function subroutine() {
a = /* inline comment */ b + c ;
}
/*/ <-- tricky comments */
/**
* Another comment.
*/
function something() {
}
--- source with block comments between '/*' and '*/' removed ---
function subroutine() {
a = b + c ;
}
function something() {
}
--- source with block comments between '*' and '*' removed ---
/
longer comments here that we can parse.
Rahoo
inline comment / <-- tricky comments Another comment.
*/
function something() {
}
Python
The code has comment delimeters as an argument and will also strip nested block comments. <lang python>def _commentstripper(txt, delim):
'Strips first nest of block comments'
deliml, delimr = delim
out =
if deliml in txt:
indx = txt.index(deliml)
out += txt[:indx]
txt = txt[indx+len(deliml):]
txt = _commentstripper(txt, delim)
assert delimr in txt, 'Cannot find closing comment delimiter in ' + txt
indx = txt.index(delimr)
out += txt[(indx+len(delimr)):]
else:
out = txt
return out
def commentstripper(txt, delim=('/*', '*/')):
'Strips nests of block comments'
deliml, delimr = delim
while deliml in txt:
txt = _commentstripper(txt, delim)
return txt</lang>
- Tests and sample output
<lang python>def test():
print('\nNON-NESTED BLOCK COMMENT EXAMPLE:')
sample = /**
* Some comments
* longer comments here that we can parse.
*
* Rahoo
*/
function subroutine() {
a = /* inline comment */ b + c ;
}
/*/ <-- tricky comments */
/**
* Another comment.
*/
function something() {
}
print(commentstripper(sample))
print('\nNESTED BLOCK COMMENT EXAMPLE:')
sample = /**
* Some comments
* longer comments here that we can parse.
*
* Rahoo
*//*
function subroutine() {
a = /* inline comment */ b + c ;
}
/*/ <-- tricky comments */
*/
/**
* Another comment.
*/
function something() {
}
print(commentstripper(sample))
if __name__ == '__main__':
test()</lang>
NON-NESTED BLOCK COMMENT EXAMPLE:
function subroutine() {
a = b + c ;
}
function something() {
}
NESTED BLOCK COMMENT EXAMPLE:
function something() {
}
Racket
<lang Racket>
- lang at-exp racket
- default delimiters (strings -- not regexps)
(define comment-start-str "/*") (define comment-end-str "*/")
(define (strip-comments text [rx1 comment-start-str] [rx2 comment-end-str])
(regexp-replace* (~a (regexp-quote rx1) ".*?" (regexp-quote rx2))
text ""))
((compose1 displayln strip-comments)
@~a{/**
* Some comments
* longer comments here that we can parse.
*
* Rahoo
*/
function subroutine() {
a = /* inline comment */ b + c ;
}
/*/ <-- tricky comments */
/**
* Another comment.
*/
function something() {
}
})
</lang>
(Outputs the expected text...)
REXX
<lang rexx>/* REXX ***************************************************************
- Split comments
- This program ignores comment delimiters within literal strings
- such as, e.g., in b = "--' O'Connor's widow --";
- it does not (yet) take care of -- comments (ignore rest of line)
- also it does not take care of say 667/*yuppers*/77 (REXX specialty)
- courtesy GS discussion!
- 12.07.2013 Walter Pachl
- /
fid='in.txt' /* input text */ oic='oc.txt'; 'erase' oic /* will contain comments */ oip='op.txt'; 'erase' oip /* will contain program parts */ oim='om.txt'; 'erase' oim /* oc.txt merged with op.txt */ cmt=0 /* comment nesting */ str= /* ' or " when in a string */ Do ri=1 By 1 While lines(fid)>0 /* loop over input */
l=linein(fid) /* an input line */
oc= /* initialize line for oc.txt */
op= /* initialize line for op.txt */
i=1 /* start at first character */
Do While i<=length(l) /* loop through input line */
If cmt=0 Then Do /* we are not in a comment */
If str<> Then Do /* we are in a string */
If substr(l,i,1)=str Then Do /* string character */
If substr(l,i+1,1)=str Then Do /* another one */
Call app 'P',substr(l,i,2) /* add or "" to op */
i=i+2 /* increase input pointer */
Iterate /* proceed in input line */
End
Else Do /* end of literal string */
Call app 'P',substr(l,i,1) /* add ' or " to op */
str=' ' /* no longer in string */
i=i+1 /* increase input pointer */
Iterate /* proceed in input line */
End
End
End
End
Select
When str= &, /* not in a string */
substr(l,i,2)='/*' Then Do /* start of comment */
cmt=cmt+1 /* increase commenr nesting */
Call app 'C','/*' /* copy to oc */
i=i+2 /* increase input pointer */
End
When cmt=0 Then Do /* not in a comment */
If str=' ' Then Do /* not in a string */
If pos(substr(l,i,1),"')>0 Then /* string delimiter */
str=substr(l,i,1) /* remember that */
End
Call app 'P',substr(l,i,1) /* copy to op */
i=i+1 /* increase input pointer */
End
When substr(l,i,2)='*/' Then Do /* end of comment */
cmt=cmt-1 /* decrement nesting depth */
Call app 'C','*/' /* copy to oc */
i=i+2 /* increase input pointer */
End
Otherwise Do /* any other character */
Call app 'C',substr(l,i,1) /* copy to oc */
i=i+1 /* increase input pointer */
End
End
End
Call oc /* Write line oc */
Call op /* Write line op */
End
Call lineout oic /* Close File oic */ Call lineout oip /* Close File oip */
Do ri=1 To ri-1 /* merge program with comments*/
op=linein(oip)
oc=linein(oic)
Do i=1 To length(oc)
If substr(oc,i,1)<> Then
op=overlay(substr(oc,i,1),op,i,1)
End
Call lineout oim,op
End
Call lineout oic Call lineout oip Call lineout oim Exit
app: Parse Arg which,string /* add str to oc or op */ /* and corresponding blanks to the other (op or oc) */ If which='C' Then Do
oc=oc||string
op=op||copies(' ',length(string))
End
Else Do
op=op||string
oc=oc||copies(' ',length(string))
End
Return
oc: Return lineout(oic,oc) op: Return lineout(oip,op)</lang> Input:
/**
* Some comments
* longer comments here that we can parse.
*
* Rahoo
*/
function subroutine() {
a = /* inline comment */ b + c ;
b = "*/' O'Connor's widow /*";
}
/*/ <-- tricky comments */
/**
* Another comment.
*/
function something() {
}
Program:
function subroutine() {
a = b + c ;
b = "*/' O'Connor's widow /*";
}
function something() {
}
Comments:
/**
* Some comments
* longer comments here that we can parse.
*
* Rahoo
*/
/* inline comment */
/*/ <-- tricky comments */
/**
* Another comment.
*/
Ring
<lang ring> example = "123/*456*/abc/*def*/789"
example2 = example nr = 1 while nr = 1
n1 = substr(example2,"/*")
n2 = substr(example2,"*/")
if n1 > 0 and n2 > 0
example3 = substr(example2,n1,n2-n1+2)
example2 = substr(example2,example3,"")
else nr = 0 ok
end see example2 + nl </lang>
Ruby
<lang ruby>def remove_comments!(str, comment_start='/*', comment_end='*/')
while start_idx = str.index(comment_start) end_idx = str.index(comment_end, start_idx + comment_start.length) + comment_end.length - 1 str[start_idx .. end_idx] = "" end str
end
def remove_comments(str, comment_start='/*', comment_end='*/')
remove_comments!(str.dup, comment_start, comment_end)
end
example = <<END_OF_STRING
/**
* Some comments
* longer comments here that we can parse.
*
* Rahoo
*/
function subroutine() {
a = /* inline comment */ b + c ;
}
/*/ <-- tricky comments */
/**
* Another comment.
*/
function something() {
}
END_OF_STRING
puts remove_comments example</lang> outputs
function subroutine() {
a = b + c ;
}
function something() {
}
Scala
<lang Scala>import java.util.regex.Pattern.quote def strip1(x: String, s: String = "/*", e: String = "*/") =
x.replaceAll("(?s)"+quote(s)+".*?"+quote(e), "")</lang>
<lang Scala>def strip2(x: String, s: String = "/*", e: String = "*/"): String = {
val a = x indexOf s val b = x indexOf (e, a + s.length) if (a == -1 || b == -1) x else strip2(x.take(a) + x.drop(b + e.length), s, e)
}</lang> <lang Scala>def strip3(x: String, s: String = "/*", e: String = "*/"): String = x.indexOf(s) match {
case -1 => x
case i => x.indexOf(e, i + s.length) match {
case -1 => x
case j => strip2(x.take(i) + x.drop(j + e.length), s, e)
}
}</lang>
Seed7
The function replace2 can be used to replace unnested comments.
<lang seed7>$ include "seed7_05.s7i";
const proc: main is func
local
const string: stri is "\
\ /**\n\
\ * Some comments\n\
\ * longer comments here that we can parse.\n\
\ *\n\
\ * Rahoo\n\
\ */\n\
\ function subroutine() {\n\
\ a = /* inline comment */ b + c ;\n\
\ }\n\
\ /*/ <-- tricky comments */\n\
\\n\
\ /**\n\
\ * Another comment.\n\
\ */\n\
\ function something() {\n\
\ }";
begin
writeln(replace2(stri, "/*", "*/", " "));
end func;</lang>
Output:
function subroutine() {
a = b + c ;
}
function something() {
}
Sidef
For extra credit, it allows the caller to redefine the delimiters. <lang ruby>func strip_block_comments(code, beg='/*', end='*/') {
var re = Regex.new(beg.escape + '.*?' + end.escape, 's'); code.gsub(re, );
}
say strip_block_comments(ARGF.slurp);</lang>
Tcl
<lang tcl>proc stripBlockComment {string {openDelimiter "/*"} {closeDelimiter "*/"}} {
# Convert the delimiters to REs by backslashing all non-alnum characters
set openAsRE [regsub -all {\W} $openDelimiter {\\&}]
set closeAsRE [regsub -all {\W} $closeDelimiter {\\&}]
# Now remove the blocks using a dynamic non-greedy regular expression regsub -all "$openAsRE.*?$closeAsRE" $string ""
}</lang> Demonstration code: <lang tcl>puts [stripBlockComment " /**
* Some comments
* longer comments here that we can parse.
*
* Rahoo
*/
function subroutine() {
a = /* inline comment */ b + c ;
}
/*/ <-- tricky comments */
/**
* Another comment.
*/
function something() {
}
"]</lang> Output:
function subroutine() {
a = b + c ;
}
function something() {
}
TUSCRIPT
<lang tuscript> $$ MODE DATA $$ script=*
/**
* Some comments
* longer comments here that we can parse.
*
* Rahoo
*/
function subroutine() {
a = /* inline comment */ b + c ;
}
/*/ <-- tricky comments */
/**
* Another comment.
*/
function something() {
}
$$ MODE TUSCRIPT ERROR/STOP CREATE ("testfile",SEQ-E,-std-) ERROR/STOP CREATE ("destfile",SEQ-E,-std-) FILE "testfile" = script BUILD S_TABLE commentbeg=":/*:" BUILD S_TABLE commentend=":*/:"
ACCESS t: READ/STREAM "testfile" s.z/u,a/commentbeg+t+e/commentend,typ ACCESS d: WRITE/STREAM "destfile" s.z/u,a+t+e LOOP READ/EXIT t IF (typ==3) CYCLE t=SQUEEZE(t) WRITE/ADJUST d ENDLOOP ENDACCESS/PRINT t ENDACCESS/PRINT d d=FILE("destfile") TRACE *d </lang> Output:
TRACE * 38 -*TUSTEP.EDT
d = *
1 =
2 = function subroutine() { a =
3 = b + c ; }
4 =
5 = function something() { }
zkl
<lang zkl>fcn stripper(text, a="/*", b="*/"){
while(xy:=text.span(a,b,True)){ x,y:=xy; text=text[0,x] + text[x+y,*] }
text
}</lang> The span method takes two tokens and matches the shortest or longest balanced match (if True). It assumes there are no escape characters (such as \ or ""). So we just repeatedly strip out the longest balanced comments until there aren't any left (span returns the empty list). If a comment was unbalanced, span would fail but this code doesn't check that and just assumes no more matches.
- Output:
The input (from the task description) is in a file because I'm too lazy to type it in:
function subroutine() {
a = b + c ;
}
function something() {
}
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