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Task/Strip-comments-from-a-string/Julia/strip-comments-from-a-string.julia

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+using Printf
+
+function striplinecomment(a::String, cchars::String="#;")
+    b = strip(a)
+    0 < length(cchars) || return b
+    for c in cchars
+        r = Regex(@sprintf "\\%c.*" c)
+        b = replace(b, r => "")
+    end
+    strip(b)
+end
+
+tests = ("apples, pears # and bananas",
+         "apples, pears ; and bananas",
+         "  apples, pears & bananas   ",
+         " # ")
+
+for t in tests
+    s = striplinecomment(t)
+    println("Testing \"", t, "\":")
+    println("    \"", s, "\"")
+end