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Task/Strip-block-comments/Ruby/strip-block-comments.rb

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+def remove_comments!(str, comment_start='/*', comment_end='*/')
+  while start_idx = str.index(comment_start)
+    end_idx = str.index(comment_end, start_idx + comment_start.length) + comment_end.length - 1
+    str[start_idx .. end_idx] = ""
+  end
+  str
+end
+
+def remove_comments(str, comment_start='/*', comment_end='*/')
+  remove_comments!(str.dup, comment_start, comment_end)
+end
+
+example = <<END_OF_STRING
+  /**
+   * Some comments
+   * longer comments here that we can parse.
+   *
+   * Rahoo
+   */
+   function subroutine() {
+    a = /* inline comment */ b + c ;
+   }
+   /*/ <-- tricky comments */
+
+   /**
+    * Another comment.
+    */
+    function something() {
+    }
+END_OF_STRING
+
+puts remove_comments example