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==General==
Two thoughts. First, wouldn't a comment notation supporting ranges (i.e. /* ... */) as well as truncate tokens ( #, ;, // ...) be more interesting? Otherwise, I'd suggest renaming this task to [[Truncate a String]]. Second (and this is just an idle idea more than anything else), a task for which a language stripped comments (per its own language's rules; // and # for PHP, // and /* */ for C++, etc) would be ''very'' interesting, as it combines demonstrating string processing as well as the language's own comment syntax. --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 13:53, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
:At the very least, the task should define what a comment is. (And, with a nod towards the "comment character inside string" issue, below, what a comment is not...) --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] ([[User talk:Rdm|talk]]) 05:13, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
I have done this sort of thing in the past and the problem statement works if the format of what is being parsed does ''not'' allow the comment indicating character to be part of valid data.
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