From: Aldric Giacomoni <aldric@...>
Date: 2009-11-19T23:31:51+09:00
Subject: Re: How to strip ruby comments in a ruby line of code?

Alexandre Mutel wrote:
> Short description : My question is : do you know any available method,
> giving the string of a Ruby line of code, to remove comments from this
> line of code?
> 
> I would like to have something really simple and not being forced to use
> a full ruby language parser to parse those lines and remove the
> comments.
> 
> Any idea?
> 
> Thanks!

I'm still only learning regular expressions (I'll do another shameless 
plug for rubular.com here), but you could do this:
string = string.match(/^.*#).to_s[0...-1]

Yes, it's a poor solution, but should you have nothing else, it'll do.
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