Re: Re: Tool to remove comments??

At 23.03.2002 00:05, you wrote:

there's also two tools called sed and grep that are available on any unix system. and probably easily gettable on windblows. That can probably remove most comments.

I know, and use these on LINUX, but I don´t want to spend time to develop something which is already made and tested. This will take a minimum of 6 hours dev. I´m now in a position, where I cannot spend this time

Why you would want to remove comments, I don't know. They are very useful in the future when fixing something or changing something. Good Code == Commented Code Well, Good Code is at least a subset of commented code ;)

That´s right, there are two versions of code, one for development, the other, cleaned is on the production (ISP)machine. As I write a lot of comments in a source, (Good Code == Commented Code ;) ) It could make more than 50% of the code. As you maybe have read the posts on speeding up the processing of code (last week), every line which is not necessary shouldn´t be read by the PHP-parser. I also found that if you remove the LF (CR/LF) combination, there´s a time reduce, even this practice is dangerous, especially for JavaScripts.

If you don't want a customer to see them, use the Zend Encoder and hide all your source.

This makes need of php4* on the ISP, and I don´t want to encrypt the code, just clean it. To encrypt, Enrico suggested a link http://pobs.mywalhalla.net/ which does this, free of charge. Any other suggestions out there? Oliver