NAME

stripcomments - strip blank lines and comments from Haskell files.

USAGE

  stripcomments <file_1> ... <file_n>

DESCRIPTION

stripcomments reads Haskell files named on the command line and strips
away comments and blank lines. Layout and syntactic correctness is
preserved. The result is sent to the standard output.

Files whose names end with '.lhs' are assumed to contain literate style
Haskell, other files are assumed to contain plain Haskell.

HOW TO COMPILE AND INSTALL

	make
	cp stripcomments /usr/local/bin     # or some other suitable directory

REQUIREMENTS

To compile stripcomments, GHC 5.02 or later is recommended. Be prepared that
Lexer/HsLex.hs takes a long time to compile.

stripcomments is implemented in pure Haskell 98, and can also be loaded
in Hugs 98.

LINKS

http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~hallgren/stripcomments/
http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~hallgren/Talks/LHiH/
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
http://www.haskell.org/hugs/

VERSIONS

1.1 Bug fix: avoid outputting a leading blank line for modules that start
             with one or more lines of whitespace

1.0 Initial release

AUTHOR

Thomas Hallgren  http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~hallgren/

OGI School of Science & Engineering
Oregon Health & Science University