Strip comments from a string: Difference between revisions

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=={{header|C sharp|C#}}==

<lang csharp>

using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

string RemoveComments(string str, string delimiter)

{

//regular expression to find a character (delimiter) and

// replace it and everything following it with an empty string.

//.Trim() will remove all beginning and ending white space.

return Regex.Replace(str, delimiter + ".+", string.Empty).Trim();

}

</lang>

Sample output:

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Console.WriteLine(RemoveComments("apples, pears # and bananas", "#"));

Console.WriteLine(RemoveComments("apples, pears ; and bananas", ";"));

apples, pears

apples, pears

=={{header|Raku}}==

(formerly Perl 6)

<lang perl6>$*IN.slurp.subst(/ \h* <[ # ; ]> \N* /, '', :g).print</lang>