stripComments: Strip comments from elements of a character vector

In wStockhausen/wtsUtilities: Collection of miscellaneous utility functions developed by William Stockhausen

Strip comments from elements of a character vector

Description

Function to strip comments from elements of a character vector.

Usage

stripComments(strv, comment = "#")

Arguments

strv	character vector to strip comments from
comment	character indicating remaining text is a comment

Details

The returned character vector will not have the same number of elements as the original if the latter had elements that were only comments or 'blank' elements. Thus, one use of this function could be to remove blank lines, comment-only lines, and commented text from a character vector created by reading a text file using readLines().

Value

character vector with comments removed.

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