lib/src/utils.dart

// Copyright (c) 2014, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

library dartdoc.utils;

String stripComments(String str) {
  if (str == null) return null;

  StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();

  if (str.startsWith('///')) {
    for (String line in str.split('\n')) {
      line = line.trimLeft();
      if (line.startsWith('/// ')) {
        buf.write('${line.substring(4)}\n');
      } else if (line.startsWith('///')) {
        buf.write('${line.substring(3)}\n');
      } else {
        buf.write('${line}\n');
      }
    }
  } else {
    if (str.startsWith('/**')) {
      str = str.substring(3);
    }
    if (str.endsWith('*/')) {
      str = str.substring(0, str.length - 2);
    }
    str = str.trim();
    for (String line in str.split('\n')) {
      line = line.trimLeft();
      if (line.startsWith('* ')) {
        buf.write('${line.substring(2)}\n');
      } else if (line.startsWith('*')) {
        buf.write('${line.substring(1)}\n');
      } else {
        buf.write('$line\n');
      }
    }
  }
  return buf.toString().trim();
}