Many changes for your consideration

[JakeH]

Over the holiday week, I did some major changes to this project as it's something I'd like to use for a large TypeScript project I'm working on.

Changes include:

• Index file generated with comment/code snippet previews. (Current implementation is rather boring, but that can be changed with the template file.)
• External configuration file for most application settings.
• Robust command line options for specific job handling as well as some default app setting overrides. e.g. nocco.exe -p c:\src -o c:\docs -t cs -n "My Project Name" --fullindex --inlineindex
• Language configuration loaded via JSON-formatted external file.
• Language definitions boiled down to easier-to-use values:

    {
        "StartsWith": "/*",
        "EndsWith": "*/",
        "TrimFromStart":[ "*"],
        "IgnoreRepeatingChars" : "true"
    }

IgnoreRepeatingChars makes the comment token /* match itself or /***** and the token */ would also match ******/

StartsWith and EndsWith are literal values, not regular expression patterns.

Languages can have many comment directives.

• Comment parser is more complex, returning a line-by-line detail of the exact code and comments extracted, with details on which comment directive was used to match.
• Multi-line comments are now handled
• Self-closing comments inline with code are now handled.

    /* comment */ var x = false; /* comment 2 */

• Comment syntax within string literals are now ignored.

    var x = 'this /* is not */ a //comment';  // but this is

• Parsing of source files is done via a Stream to avoid loading the entire file into memory. Summary of the parsing, however, is kept around to build an index file at the end.
• Unit tests have been introduced. Current tests are for the code parser and comment cleaner.
• Code is self-documenting or otherwise commented appropriately.

[ashclarke]

:+1:

[vai]

:+1: