Re: bash script to strip comments?

[Valerio Schiavoni <valerio.schiavoni@...>]

Hello Luiz,

lstrip does the job. 

thanks,

valerio

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

> is there anyone who hash a script (bash or others) that takes a .lua file
> and strips out all the comments (block, multiline, single line) ?

This is hard to do right with regular expressions. Better use the Lua lexer.
See for instance LuaSrcDiet and my lstrip:
       http://luasrcdiet.luaforge.net/
       http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/lua/#lstrip