Requirements
- Single-lines comments (e.g. -- my comment) should be removed.
- Multi-line comments (e.g. /* my comment */) should be removed.
- The content of strings literals (e.g. 'this is a multi-line comment: /* my comment */') should be ignored.
- The content of identifiers (e.g. "-- column 1 --") should be ignored.
literals and identifiers
Literals and identifiers can span over multiple lines
Single-line comments
A single-line comment might be the last element of the code and might not end with a newline.
Nested multi-line comments
In databases such as SQL Server and PostgreSQL, multi-line comments can be nested, e.g -
/* outer comment /* inner comment */ */
The following code is invalid since only the inner comment is closed:
/* opened outer comment /* closed inner comment */
In databases such as Teradata, Oracle, MySql and SQLite there is no concept of nested comments. The following code is invalid since the comment is already closed with the leftmost */.
/* comment /* is closed */ ERROR */
This however is a valid code:
/* comment /* still the same comment */