Dave wrote:
> OK, I'm stumped.
>
> I'm trying to find newline characters (\n, specifically) that are NOT
> in comments.
>
> So, for example (where "<-" = a newline character):
> ==========================================
> 1: <-
> 2: /*<-
> 3: ----------------------<-
> 4: comment<-
> 5: ----------------------<-
> 6: */<-
> 7: <-
> 8: CODE CODE CODE<-
> 9: <-
> ==========================================
[snip]
Well, I'm sure there is some regex that'll do it, but here's a stupid
iterative solution:
def newlines(s):
nl = []
inComment = False
for i in xrange(len(s)):
if s[i:i+2] == '/*':
inComment = True
if s[i:i+2] == '*/':
inComment = False
if inComment: continue
if s[i] == '\n':
nl.append(i)
return tuple(nl)
Your example returns:
(0, 64, 65, 80, 81)
This probably isn't as fast as a regex, but at least it works.
-Kirk McDonald
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