Is there a good tool to extract comments from a js file?

[DDD]

Hi,

Is there a good tool to extract comments from a js file and produce a
document?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Evertjan.]

DDD wrote on 12 mei 2010 in comp.lang.javascript:

Is there a good tool to extract comments from a js file and produce a
document?

Define what you mean by "comment", like:
1 anything between /* and */
2 anything on a line from //

Write a short Javascript script using linear parsing and/or regex.

 

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

If you're talking about JavaDoc-style comments, take a look at JsDoc
Toolkit:
http://code.google.com/p/jsdoc-toolkit/

The only problem with it is that its authors still do not seem to understand
that they are not producing documentation for a class-based programming
language but for a prototype-based programming language; not for a different
kind of Java code, but for several ECMAScript implementations. As a result,
you find classes and fields where you should find object types (defined by
constructors) and properties.


PointedEars