Re: stripping comments

[Samuel <javalikescript@...>]

> I've been thinking about the problem of stripping comments (including 
> long/block comments) from a string containing Lua code. Is there some 
> way to do this that is shorter than an imperative byte-by-byte state 
> machine? I've considered Lua's patterns and also the Lpeg library, but 
> without success.

Hello,

You could use an AST parser to strip comments such as DumbLuaParser[1].

Have a good day,
Samuel

[1] https://github.com/ReFreezed/DumbLuaParser