I was looking for a PowerQuery function that would return a text string that is stripped from comments, so it could be processed afterwards.
Since I could not find one, I decided to build one myself.
I'd love to hear your feedback and if this helped you... thank you for the kudo 😉 !
(FullText as text) =>
let FT0 = Text.Replace(FullText, Character.FromNumber(13), Character.FromNumber(10)),
FT1 = Text.Replace(FT0, Character.FromNumber(10)&Character.FromNumber(10), Character.FromNumber(10)),
FT2 = Text.Replace(FT1, Character.FromNumber(10)&Character.FromNumber(10), Character.FromNumber(10)),
FT3 = Text.Replace(FT2, Character.FromNumber(10)&Character.FromNumber(10), Character.FromNumber(10)),
FT9 = FT3,
CommentStyle1 = // remove the parts encoded with /* */
List.Transform(
List.RemoveFirstN(
Text.Split("/*FAKE START*/"&FT9, "/*")
, 1
)
, each Text.Split(_, "*/"){1}
),
TextWithoutCommentStyle1 = Text.Combine(CommentStyle1, Character.FromNumber(10)), // Combine the list back to a text string
TextWithoutCommentStyle2 = List.Transform(Text.Split(TextWithoutCommentStyle1, Character.FromNumber(10)), each Text.Split(_, "--"){0} ), // now split the line by newline and strip everything after --
TextWithoutCommentStyle3 = List.Transform(TextWithoutCommentStyle2, each Text.Split(_, "//"){0} ), // now split the line by newline and strip everything after //
ReturnText =
Text.Combine(
List.Select(
List.Transform(
TextWithoutCommentStyle3
, each Text.Trim(_)
)
, each _ <> ""
)
, Character.FromNumber(10)
)
in ReturnText
