comment_strip.r

Comment Strip, for Ruby

• Introduction
• Installation
• Components
• Examples
• Project Information
  • Where to get help
  • Contribution guidelines
  • Dependencies
    • Efferent (fan-out)
      • Runtime Dependencies (aka "Normal Dependencies")
      • Development Dependencies
    • Afferent (fan-in)
      • Runtime dependents
      • Development dependents
  • Related projects
  • License

comment_strip.r strips comments from source text for a small set of language families. Call CommentStrip.strip(input, language_family) (or the equivalent instance API) with a recognised family such as :C or :Hash_Line; the library returns the input with comments removed according to that family's rules.

Install via gem as in:

gem install comment_strip-ruby

or add it to your Gemfile.

Current version supports following language families:

• 'C' - C-family languages, recognising // line and /* … */ block comments;
• 'Hash_Line' - Generic support for # line comments, as found in shell scripts and languages such as Perl, Python, and Ruby. NOTE: Does not yet provide any language-specific smarts such as she-bang comments and directive comments;

It is as simple as the following:

require 'comment_strip'

stripped = CommentStrip.strip($stdin.read, :C)

puts "Stripped form of input:\n#{stripped}"

Examples are provided in the examples directory. A detailed list TOC of them is provided in EXAMPLES.md.

GitHub Page

Defect reports, feature requests, and pull requests are welcome on https://github.com/synesissoftware/comment_strip.r.

Libraries upon which comment_strip.r depends:

• xqsr3;

• rake;
• test-unit;

Projects that depend on comment_strip.r:

• <none>;

• <none>;

• <none> — no sibling-language comment_strip ports are published in freelibs at present;

comment_strip.r is released under the 3-clause BSD license. See LICENSE for details.