Strip comments from LaTeX lines

Source: R/strip_comments.R

Strip comments from LaTeX lines

strip_comments(lines, retain.percent.symbol = TRUE)

Arguments

lines

Character vector of a LaTeX document.
retain.percent.symbol

(logical, default: TRUE) Should the % symbol itself be stripped?

Value

lines but with all text to the right of every unescaped % removed

Examples


some_lines <- c("Text. % A comment", "20\% of comments are % useful")
strip_comments(some_lines)
strip_comments(some_lines, retain.percent.symbol = FALSE)

#> Error: '\%' is an unrecognized escape in character string starting ""20\%"