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And we throw out everything else. |
And we throw out everything else. |
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== Badly defined task == |
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Stripping comments generally requires knowledge of the language involved. Simply taking out COMMENT_BEGIN up to COMMENT_END won't garantee what's left still conform to syntax (due to nested comment, markers being part of a literal string, etc), the only proper way is by parsing the text according the syntax, which is no doubt too much work. As an example, the C code can't strip its own source properly, which is pretty comedic. --[[User:Ledrug|Ledrug]] 06:57, 12 August 2011 (UTC) |
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