export function stripComments()

in src/impl/parser.ts [652:679]

• 25 lines of code
• 7 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

export function stripComments(text: string, replaceCh?: string): string {

	let _scanner = createScanner(text),
		parts: string[] = [],
		kind: SyntaxKind,
		offset = 0,
		pos: number;

	do {
		pos = _scanner.getPosition();
		kind = _scanner.scan();
		switch (kind) {
			case SyntaxKind.LineCommentTrivia:
			case SyntaxKind.BlockCommentTrivia:
			case SyntaxKind.EOF:
				if (offset !== pos) {
					parts.push(text.substring(offset, pos));
				}
				if (replaceCh !== undefined) {
					parts.push(_scanner.getTokenValue().replace(/[^\r\n]/g, replaceCh));
				}
				offset = _scanner.getPosition();
				break;
		}
	} while (kind !== SyntaxKind.EOF);

	return parts.join('');
}