63. str_uncomment_string

Synopsis

Remove comments from a string

Usage

String_Type str_uncomment_string(String_Type s, String_Type beg, String_Type end)

Description

This function may be used to remove comments from a string s. The parameters, beg and end, are strings of equal length whose corresponding characters specify the begin and end comment characters, respectively. It returns the uncommented string.

Example

The expression

     str_uncomment_string ("Hello (testing) 'example' World", "'(", "')")

returns the string "Hello World".

Notes

This routine does not handle multicharacter comment delimiters and it assumes that comments are not nested.

See Also

str_quote_string