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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)
=== Check your data ===
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.
As soon as you start to get, for example, arbitrary character strings then you need a more sophisticated parser that allows a comment marker character to appear in a string without the parser treating it as the start of a comment. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 04:40, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
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