A comment holds the text comment for a RDoc::CodeObject and provides a unified way of cleaning it up and parsing it into an RDoc::Markup::Document.

Each comment may have a different markup format set by format=. By default 'rdoc' is used. The :markup: directive tells RDoc which format to use.

See Other directives at RDoc::Markup for instructions on adding an alternate format.

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[W] document

Overrides the content returned by parse. Use when there is no text source for this comment
[RW] file

The RDoc::TopLevel this comment was found in
[R] format

The format of this comment. Defaults to RDoc::Markup
[RW] location

The RDoc::TopLevel this comment was found in
[R] text

The text for this comment
Class Public methods
new(text = nil, location = nil)

Creates a new comment with text that is found in the RDoc::TopLevel location.

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# File lib/rdoc/comment.rb, line 45
def initialize text = nil, location = nil
  @location = location
  @text     = text

  @document   = nil
  @format     = 'rdoc'
  @normalized = false
end
Instance Public methods
empty?()

A comment is empty if its text String is empty.

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# File lib/rdoc/comment.rb, line 131
def empty?
  @text.empty?
end
extract_call_seq(method)

Look for a 'call-seq' in the comment to override the normal parameter handling. The :call-seq: is indented from the baseline. All lines of the same indentation level and prefix are consumed.

For example, all of the following will be used as the :call-seq:

# :call-seq:
#   ARGF.readlines(sep=$/)     -> array
#   ARGF.readlines(limit)      -> array
#   ARGF.readlines(sep, limit) -> array
#
#   ARGF.to_a(sep=$/)     -> array
#   ARGF.to_a(limit)      -> array
#   ARGF.to_a(sep, limit) -> array

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# File lib/rdoc/comment.rb, line 83
def extract_call_seq method
  # we must handle situations like the above followed by an unindented first
  # comment.  The difficulty is to make sure not to match lines starting
  # with ARGF at the same indent, but that are after the first description
  # paragraph.
  if @text =~ /^\s*:?call-seq:(.*?(?:\S).*?)^\s*$/m then
    all_start, all_stop = $~.offset(0)
    seq_start, seq_stop = $~.offset(1)

    # we get the following lines that start with the leading word at the
    # same indent, even if they have blank lines before
    if $1 =~ /(^\s*\n)+^(\s*\w+)/m then
      leading = $2 # ' *    ARGF' in the example above
      re = %r
        \A(
           (^\s*\n)+
           (^#{Regexp.escape leading}.*?\n)+
          )+
        ^\s*$
      %xm

      if @text[seq_stop..-1] =~ re then
        all_stop = seq_stop + $~.offset(0).last
        seq_stop = seq_stop + $~.offset(1).last
      end
    end

    seq = @text[seq_start..seq_stop]
    seq.gsub!(/^\s*(\S|\n)/m, '\1')
    @text.slice! all_start...all_stop

    method.call_seq = seq.chomp

  elsif @text.sub!(/^\s*:?call-seq:(.*?)(^\s*$|\z)/m, '') then
    seq = $1
    seq.gsub!(/^\s*/, '')
    method.call_seq = seq
  end
  #elsif @text.sub!(/\A\/\*\s*call-seq:(.*?)\*\/\Z/, '') then
  #  method.call_seq = $1.strip
  #end

  method
end
force_encoding(encoding)

HACK dubious

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# File lib/rdoc/comment.rb, line 138
def force_encoding encoding
  @text.force_encoding encoding
end
format=(format)

Sets the format of this comment and resets any parsed document

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# File lib/rdoc/comment.rb, line 145
def format= format
  @format = format
  @document = nil
end
normalize()

Normalizes the text. See RDoc::Text#normalize_comment for details

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# File lib/rdoc/comment.rb, line 159
def normalize
  return self unless @text
  return self if @normalized # TODO eliminate duplicate normalization

  @text = normalize_comment @text

  @normalized = true

  self
end
parse()

Parses the comment into an RDoc::Markup::Document. The parsed document is cached until the text is changed.

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# File lib/rdoc/comment.rb, line 181
def parse
  return @document if @document

  @document = super @text, @format
  @document.file = @location
  @document
end
remove_private()

Removes private sections from this comment. Private sections are flush to the comment marker and start with -- and end with ++. For C-style comments, a private marker may not start at the opening of the comment.

*--
* private
*++
* public

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# File lib/rdoc/comment.rb, line 202
def remove_private
  # Workaround for gsub encoding for Ruby 1.9.2 and earlier
  empty = ''
  empty.force_encoding @text.encoding if Object.const_defined? :Encoding

  @text = @text.gsub(%r^\s*([#*]?)--.*?^\s*(\1)\+\+\n?%m, empty)
  @text = @text.sub(%r^\s*[#*]?--.*%m, '')
end
text=(text)

Replaces this comment's text with text and resets the parsed document.

An error is raised if the comment contains a document but no text.

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# File lib/rdoc/comment.rb, line 216
def text= text
  raise RDoc::Error, 'replacing document-only comment is not allowed' if
    @text.nil? and @document

  @document = nil
  @text = text
end
tomdoc?()

Returns true if this comment is in TomDoc format.

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# File lib/rdoc/comment.rb, line 227
def tomdoc?
  @format == 'tomdoc'
end