TeXCheckR (version 0.8.1)

strip_comments: Strip comments from LaTeX lines

Description

Strip comments from LaTeX lines

Usage

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

Value

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

Arguments

lines

Character vector of a LaTeX document.

retain.percent.symbol

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

Examples

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