marko/compiler/util/removeComments.js

'use strict';
var tokenizer = require('./tokenizer').create([
    {
        name: 'stringDouble',
        pattern: /"(?:[^"]|\\")*"/,
    },
    {
        name: 'stringSingle',
        pattern: /'(?:[^']|\\')*'/
    },
    {
        name: 'singleLineComment',
        pattern: /\/\/.*/
    },
    {
        name: 'multiLineComment',
        pattern: /\/\*(?:[\s\S]*?)\*\//
    }
]);

/**
 * Parses a for loop string in the following forms:
 *
 * <varName> in <expression>
 * <varName> in <expression> | status-var=<varName> separator=<expression>
 * <varName> from <expression> to <expression>
 * <varName> from <expression> to <expression> step <expression>
 * <init>; <test>; <update>
 */
module.exports = function removeComments(str) {

    var comments = [];

    tokenizer.forEachToken(str, (token) => {
        switch(token.name) {
            case 'singleLineComment':
            case 'multiLineComment':
                comments.push(token);
                break;
        }
    });

    var len = comments.length;

    if (len) {
        for (var i=len-1; i>=0; i--) {
            var comment = comments[i];
            str = str.substring(0, comment.start) + str.substring(comment.end);
        }
    }

    return str;
};