parsing comments in scripts

[Mark Wieder]

Alex-

Friday, December 10, 2004, 11:26:15 AM, you wrote:

AT> function StripComments theLine
AT>    local theResult
AT>    put token 1 to -1 of theLine into theResult
AT>     if quote is in token -2 to -1 of theLine then put quote after theResult
AT>    return theResult
AT> end StripComents

Thanks for that. It pretty much does the job for me, although I have
to handle C-style comments and line-continuation characters externally
before the tokenizer has a chance to work.

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-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net