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How to find all comments with Beautiful Soup

You can pass a function to find_all() to help it check whether the string is a Comment. For example I have below html: <body> <!– Branding and main navigation –> <div class=”Branding”>The Science &amp; Safety Behind Your Favorite Products</div> <div class=”l-branding”> <p>Just a brand</p> </div> <!– test comment here –> <div class=”block_content”> <a href=”https://www.google.com”>Google</a> </div> … Read more

Remove C and C++ comments using Python?

This handles C++-style comments, C-style comments, strings and simple nesting thereof. def comment_remover(text): def replacer(match): s = match.group(0) if s.startswith(“https://stackoverflow.com/”): return ” ” # note: a space and not an empty string else: return s pattern = re.compile( r’//.*?$|/\*.*?\*/|\'(?:\\.|[^\\\’])*\’|”(?:\\.|[^\\”])*”‘, re.DOTALL | re.MULTILINE ) return re.sub(pattern, replacer, text) Strings needs to be included, because comment-markers inside … Read more

How to retrieve comments from within an XML Document in PHP

SimpleXML cannot handle comments, but the DOM extension can. Here’s how you can extract all the comments. You just have to adapt the XPath expression to target the node you want. $doc = new DOMDocument; $doc->loadXML( ‘<doc> <node><!– First node –></node> <node><!– Second node –></node> </doc>’ ); $xpath = new DOMXPath($doc); foreach ($xpath->query(‘//comment()’) as $comment) … Read more

//! [0] in Qt source code

Despite the common misconception, this is qdoc syntax, not doxygen. This comment is for documentation purposes in the Qt Project to mark example snippets to be rendered so. See the documentation and the corresponding code that implements this feature. As an end user of Qt, you do not need to deal with it too much … Read more

How to quote “*/” in JavaDocs

Use HTML escaping. So in your example: /** * Returns true if the specified string contains “*&#47;”. */ public boolean containsSpecialSequence(String str) &#47; escapes as a “https://stackoverflow.com/” character. Javadoc should insert the escaped sequence unmolested into the HTML it generates, and that should render as “*/” in your browser. If you want to be very … Read more