Re: Dan's comment remover
Alan,
The problem is recognizing *for sure* what is a comment and what is not.
For instance, a line of code *could* have a pair of dashes *inside* a quoted
piece of text, which must *not* be interpreted as a comment tag, or it would
chop off the rest of the line, wrongfully. That's why I had to look for
quote symbols, and pairs of them, to see if "--" was inside quotes or
outside them. But I had to *ignore* any "literalized" quotes, ie, \" which
would be intended to be included in a text string, not be defining the
beginning or end of a text string.
example:
setText(window1, "this is some text--and this is more of the same, NOT a
comment!")
and that example could have a comment *after* it, that is, after the last
of a *pair* of quotes, which *must* be recognized as a comment.
My way seems to work, (with the exception of not handling mixed spaces and
tabs before a comment exactly as I would like), it just looked too complex
to be optimal.
Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Oxley" <fizzpop at icon.co.za>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 8:23 AM
Subject: Dan's comment remover
>
> Hi Dan and group,
> Can you not set a (delete) flag based on whether there is code data on the
> same line, *before* the
> comment? That would need to exclude tabs and spaces. Preferable to simply
> looking for a quote.
> Sorry if this is obvious, have I missed something and encouraged
derision..
> ;))
>
> Alan
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