Re: A task for someone - a comment remover.

[Tim S. <ti...@di...>]

Hello,

Nigel Swinson wrote:
> XPath.production.class.php will functionally be the same as XPath.class.php,
> but will have ALL the comments removed apart from the copyright and version
> header at the top.
> 
> Is there anyone out there who could write this for us?  It seems like a
> fairly self contained task that wouldn't take too long.  You could base it
> on the GeneratePhpDocumentation.pl Perl script that ships with the module
> perhaps?
> 
> Anyway if there is anyone out there who would like to do this, let us know.

this sounded like fun, so I wrote a simple "comment remover" for PHP
source code. Tested it on some 50,000 lines of our PHP code and it
didn't break anything ...

It is written in PHP because I don't like Perl :) The code is
intentionally not optimized for efficiency, but for comprehensibility.
What do you think about it?

I have attached the code to this mail - I hope attachments are OK on
this list.

Test it like this:

  php -q commentremover.php yourfile.php > yourfile_nocomments.php

Please note that this currently removes ALL comments. Special handling
for the copyright + version comments is not implemented yet.

I hope this seems useful to you.

Regards,
Tim

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