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I am wondering if someone can help me assemble a basic script cleanup program to clean code comments faster, where upon detecting a code comment appendage ; will delete the rest of the line. Comments at the end of a line, could be detected and wiped?

x = 1 ; this is a varable <- delete ; and everything after

IT will be massive help to have a efficent script cleaner.

comments are your friend.

I wrote a script to clean my "debug" comments, but it could easily be modified to clean all comments (well it doesn't support multi-line comments yet)...I'll work on it & post it...

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Yes. Deleting comments will bring no improvement of the script, so why doing this?
JSLover's clean up of some kind of comment has sense, but not blind clean up.
In all cases, it is probably a matter a FileRead, RegExReplace, FileDelete and FileAppend, so around 4 or 5 lines...

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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

script cleaner

you mean , scrip obfuscator

Thre should be top of the line warning at the first page with text


DO NOT DELETE COMMENTS, EVER

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I agree with what you say, but I like to remove comments in some tight security applications. My original question still stands, and just curious. IT seems the official decompiler AHK program actually strips code comments upon de-compiling using a password? I am a little confused there can someone clairfy? My question I guess is -- once a AHK executable is defined, can those code comments be seen -- or am I wasting my time manully removing them in-between .exe builds.

As I understand it the compiler strips out the comments when it makes the .EXE, so no fear, they're gone. However, if you really need know, compile your program and then decompile it.

Don't worry about it. Whether you give it a password or not, comments are always removed. In fact, most people see this as a disadvantage.

Well, that clears it all up. So, to re-affirm and confirm here, AHK by *default* will strip out all code comments

Yes, Ahk2Exe will. Technically, AutoHotkey itself does too, but... does that really matter?

An EXE can be decompiled to retrieve the original script by downloading Exe2Ahk (this utility should be run from the command prompt). However, any comments originally present (semicolon or /**/) >> will be lost <<.

"Will be lost", is technically a little unclear then as that stands to read. Right? Maybe Chris can confirm. The way it read to me, it sounds like it presumes the comments will be lost because of the decompiling. Are they still in there? ARE YOU SURE??

Ahk2Exe behaves much the same way AHK itself does. That is, it completely disregards comments as irrelevant to parsing the code. So yes, they will be lost. Try it yourself if you're still unconvinced.

As wtg already said, the compiler strips out the comments when it creates the executable.
There are no comments in the EXE. Thus they can not be retrieved.

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