I found Code.string_to_quoted/2 returns quoted expression, but couldn’t find a way to rebuild it to code. Also, it has all location information and complicated nest format… so it’s doable but doesn’t seem “easy” at the first glance (e.g. no documentation on the structure? ) I already have a shell s…

Maybe sed? Remove comments from files Using sed sed -e '/^#/d' -e 's/#.*$//' in - (Remove comments from files Use sed to remove comments from a file. In this example the comments begin with #. The command '/^#/d' remove line starting with #. The command 's/#.*$//' remove comments at en…

I’m already using sed but I’d like to handle it with AST so that it doesn’t remove markdown header from multistring @doc, for example Here is a command I usually run after mix new sed -i '/^ *#/d' \ .gitignore \ config/*.exs \ lib/**/*.ex \ mix.exs \ test/**/*.ex \ test/**/*.exs mix f…

You can use Macro.to_string/1/2: iex(1)> """ ...(1)> defmodule M do ...(1)> # a function ...(1)> def foo, do: :foo ...(1)> end ...(1)> """ "defmodule M do\n # a function\n def foo, do: :foo\nend\n" iex(2)> Code.string_to_quoted(v(1)) {:ok, {:defmodule, [line: 1], [ {:__aliases__, [line…

Thanks - but I found it does not return same format as mix format for .exs remove-comment.exs file # top-level comment defmodule RemoveComment do # in-module comment def run(code_string) do # in-func comment code_string |> Code.string_to_quoted!() |> Macro.to_string() end e…

Thats properly because the formatter use Inspect.Algebra — Elixir v1.20.2

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