Re: omit comments in PL/SQL source code

From: Jim Kennedy <kennedy-downwithspammersfamily_at_attbi.net>
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 23:10:25 GMT
Message-ID: <BB6xc.1757$0y.739@attbi_s03>

"Ivan Bukovcan" <b_at_buko.sk> wrote in message news:c85e68d1.0406070744.3ab3d551_at_posting.google.com...
> Hi,
>
> I have this situation:
> I am doing simple parser to parse PL/SQL packages and create some
> metadata from it.
> I select the package source from SYS.ALL_SOURCE view.
>
> My question is:
> Is it possible to omit all comments (both /**/ and -- ) in the source
> code, so my parser would not have to parse them? There may be large
> blocks of commented source which I dont want to be parsed, I want to
> skip it.
>
> Is there some way to do this or do I have to create "comments parser"
> to get rid of all the comments in the source?
>
> Many thanks for suggestions,
>
> Ivan

Why? Is there a real good reason to write your own? Some of us have better things to do than reinvent the wheel.
Jim Received on Mon Jun 07 2004 - 18:10:25 CDT