Topic: remove all comments

[domenicomaria]

is there any utility to remove all comments in a large lsp file?

[Lonnie]

How large?

chatgpt will let you put a lisp in up to a maximum limit for input text is 4096. It will clean and comment pretty well. I often use it to write my header.

[Lastknownuser]

is there any utility to remove all comments in a large lsp file?

Notepad++
CTRL+H
Find what: ";.*"
Replace with: empty string ""
Replace all

[It's Alive!]

I had one in .EXE, but it doesn't run (1991) lol
Id bet common lispers have one

[kozmos]

The very old LISPTOOL can do this job, but it doesn't support ;|.......|;

[JohnK]

Not sure why you'd want to do this but your text editor should be able to do this as Lastknownuser pointed out.

I had one in .EXE, but it doesn't run (1991) lol
Id bet common lispers have one

Just made one in C. Reads a directory of files and outputs to a new file while skipping all comment lines.

[Lee Mac]

is there any utility to remove all comments in a large lsp file?

Notepad++
CTRL+H
Find what: ";.*"
Replace with: empty string ""
Replace all

Consider semi-colons in string literals, and multiline comments.

[kdub_nz]

. . . and inline comments

Code - Auto/Visual Lisp: [Select]

1.  
2. (setq painInTheButt ;|some note here|; (getvar "petPeeves"))
3.  
4.  

[It's Alive!]

When I first started using lisp, I’d have a version with comments and extra whitespace in the code removed, thinking it would run faster.
I was like compiling bro

[BIGAL]

Bit like on another forum a poster uses tabs and indents code problem is it pushes so far to right code disappears. I try to use 2 spaces rather than tab. Again use \t in search.

It would be pretty easy if comments are always to right -> end of line single lines, to write a lisp using Vl-position and substr writing to a temp file, option delete original or put some where else, then rename back to original.

[kdub_nz]

When I first started using lisp, I’d have a version with comments and extra whitespace in the code removed, thinking it would run faster.
. . . 

and you believed in the Easter bunny too ?