Question

Is there a quick way to remove all of the comments from a Coldfusion File? I have to work on a file that is mostly comments (especially comments of old non-functional code), and I’d like to create a temporary version with no comments and functional code only.

I generally use Notepad++ to edit CFM files, but I also have ColdFusion Studio.

Any help is appreciated!

Answer 1

With CFML you can do it with a quick regex. This only works with CFML tag based comments, not script ones.

<cfset contents = fileRead(expandPath("./test2.cfm"))>
<cfset noComments = rereplace(contents, "<!---.*?--->", "", "all")>
<cfoutput>
#htmlCodeFormat(noComments)#
</cfoutput>