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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting best way for removing comment from ruby program Post 302349636 by thegeek on Tuesday 1st of September 2009 11:53:00 AM

09-01-2009

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If i have not communicated the requirement correctly, let me do it now.

I can write Perl programs to remove the comment, but it is tough to handle all the cases such as,
1. removing single line comment,
2. removing multi line comment,
3. removing comments which are in the side of code

It should not remove the code wrongly, because in ruby,
1. we can access variables using #.
2. A string which can contain # in it.
And lot other cases which i dont know. As i want to use this way for a sensitive application, the implementation which i do should not affect the code.

So i want to know about a proven tool or best method to remove source from ruby/rails program. Where as for php we have two standard ways as -w option, or a function in php can parse and give the tokens.

For perl, removing comment in perl is by"perltidy -dac".

I am searching for such a standard way for ruby/rails. Thanks for your time.

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UPDATE-METAINIT(1)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					UPDATE-METAINIT(1)

NAME

       update-metainit - Generates init scripts

SYNOPSIS

       update-metainit [--remove initname [--purge] ]

DESCRIPTION

       Metainit solves the problem of writing good init scripts. Instead of manually creating these important files, they are derived from a
       declaritive description in the metainit files in /etc/metainit. These files can be shipped with packages or created by the local adminis-
       trator.

       If update-metainit called without argument, it will regenerate init scripts for all the files in /etc/metainit. The generated files contain
       a large warning in form of a comment that they will be overridden. Modifications are preferably done in the files in /etc/metainit and made
       effective by running update-metainit. If needed, the administrator can prevent modified init files by removing the warning comment.

OPTIONS

       --remove initname
	   This command will remove any generated and non-modified scripts that were created by the metainit file with the name initname.

       --purge
	   Only usable with --remove. Will remove the generated files even if modified.

SEE ALSO

       dh_metainit(1)

AUTHOR

       Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org>

perl v5.8.8							    2007-07-30							UPDATE-METAINIT(1)