RosettaCodeData/Task/Strip-block-comments/Clojure/strip-block-comments.clj

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Clojure

(defn comment-strip [txt & args]
(let [args (conj {:delim ["/*" "*/"]} (apply hash-map args)) ; This is the standard way of doing keyword/optional arguments in Clojure
[opener closer] (:delim args)]
(loop [out "", txt txt, delim-count 0] ; delim-count is needed to handle nested comments
(let [[hdtxt resttxt] (split-at (count opener) txt)] ; This splits "/* blah blah */" into hdtxt="/*" and restxt="blah blah */"
(printf "hdtxt=%8s resttxt=%8s out=%8s txt=%16s delim-count=%s\n" (apply str hdtxt) (apply str resttxt) out (apply str txt) delim-count)
(cond
(empty? hdtxt) (str out (apply str txt))
(= (apply str hdtxt) opener) (recur out resttxt (inc delim-count))
(= (apply str hdtxt) closer) (recur out resttxt (dec delim-count))
(= delim-count 0)(recur (str out (first txt)) (rest txt) delim-count)
true (recur out (rest txt) delim-count))))))