strip-comments     

> Strip line and/or block comments from a string. Blazing fast, and works with JavaScript, Sass, CSS, Less.js, and a number of other languages.

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- Install
- What does this do?
- Usage
- API
- About

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Install

Install with npm (requires Node.js >=10):

``sh
$ npm install --save strip-comments
`

What does this do?

Takes a string and returns a new string with comments removed. Works with line comments and/or block comments. Optionally removes the first comment only or ignores protected comments.

Works with:

* ada
* apl
* applescript
* c
* csharp
* css
* hashbang
* haskell
* html
* java
* javascript
* less
* lua
* matlab
* ocaml
* pascal
* perl
* php
* python
* ruby
* sass
* shebang
* sql
* swift
* typscript
* xml

Usage

By default all comments are stripped.

`js
const strip = require('strip-comments');
const str = strip('const foo = "bar";// this is a comment\n / me too \/');
console.log(str);
// => 'const foo = "bar";\n'
`

For more use-cases see the tests

API

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Strip all code comments from the given input, including protected comments that start with !, unless disabled by setting options.keepProtected to true.

Params

* input {String}: string from which to strip comments
* options {Object}: optional options, passed to extract-comments

- line {Boolean}: if false strip only block comments, default true
- block {Boolean}: if false strip only line comments, default true
- keepProtected {Boolean}: Keep ignored comments (e.g. /*! and //!)
- preserveNewlines {Boolean}: Preserve newlines after comments are stripped
* returns {String}: modified input

Example

`js
const str = strip('const foo = "bar";// this is a comment\n / me too /');
console.log(str);
// => 'const foo = "bar";'
`

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Strip only block comments.

Params

* input {String}: string from which to strip comments
options {Object}: pass opts.keepProtected: true to keep ignored comments (e.g. /!)
* returns {String}: modified string

Example

`js
const strip = require('..');
const str = strip.block('const foo = "bar";// this is a comment\n / me too /');
console.log(str);
// => 'const foo = "bar";// this is a comment'
`

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Strip only line comments.

Params

* input {String}: string from which to strip comments
* options {Object}: pass opts.keepProtected: true to keep ignored comments (e.g. //!)
* returns {String}: modified string

Example

`js
const str = strip.line('const foo = "bar";// this is a comment\n / me too /');
console.log(str);
// => 'const foo = "bar";\n/ me too /'
`

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Strip the first comment from the given input. Or, if opts.keepProtected is true, the first non-protected comment will be stripped.

Params

* input {String}
* options {Object}: pass opts.keepProtected: true to keep comments with !
* returns {String}

Example

`js
const output = strip.first(input, { keepProtected: true });
console.log(output);
// => '//! first comment\nfoo; '
`

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Parses a string and returns a basic CST (Concrete Syntax Tree).

Params

* input {String}: string from which to strip comments
options {Object}: pass opts.keepProtected: true to keep ignored comments (e.g. /!)
* returns {String}: modified string

Example

`js
const strip = require('..');
const str = strip.block('const foo = "bar";// this is a comment\n / me too /');
console.log(str);
// => 'const foo = "bar";// this is a comment'
`

About

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You might also be interested in these projects:

* code-context: Parse a string of javascript to determine the context for functions, variables and comments based… more | homepage
* extract-comments: Uses esprima to extract line and block comments from a string of JavaScript. Also optionally… more | homepage.")
* parse-code-context: Fast and simple way to parse code context for use with documentation from code comments… more | homepage
* parse-comments: Parse code comments from JavaScript or any language that uses the same format. | homepage

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| Commits | Contributor |
| --- | --- |
| 82 | jonschlinkert |
| 4 | tunnckoCore |
| 2 | mk-pmb |
| 1 | kgryte |
| 1 | briandipalma |
| 1 | epicoxymoron |
| 1 | XuluWarrior |

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Copyright © 2019, Jon Schlinkert.
Released under the MIT License.

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