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> {%= description %}

## Overview

multilang-extract-comments is a package for extracting comments from source-code. It is compatible with the
`extract-comments`-package by Jon Schlinkert:

It provides an extended API, which allows you to extract comments not only from JavaScript
files, but also from Python, C, Handlebars etc.

The module was originally forked from [extract-comments](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/extract-comments),
with the purpose to allow [verb](https://github.com/verbose/verb) to extract jsdoc-like comments from file
other than JavaScript-files. In the end, the module was a complete rewrite of the original module. Now the only
common file is `spec/javascript-spec.js` which is more or less equal to Jon Schlinkert's
`extract-comments/test.js`.

The primary targets are Handlebars-files, for documenting
[bootprint template-modules](https://github.com/nknapp/bootprint).

## Example (JavaScript)

For the following string:

{%= embed("./examples/javascript.js") %}

and the following code

```js
var comments = require('multilang-extract-comments')(string);
```

The variable `comments` now contains:

```json
{%= stringifyPretty(extract(read("./examples/javascript.js"))) %}
```

Also have a look at the usage example of `extract-comments`


## Example (Handlebars)

For the following string:

{%= embed("./examples/handlebars.hbs") %}

and the following code

```hbs
var comments = require('multilang-extract-comments')(string, { filename: 'handlebars.hbs'});
```

The variable `comments` now contains:

```json
{%= stringifyPretty(extractHbs(read("./examples/handlebars.hbs"))) %}
```

## Example (Custom)

For the following string:

{%= embed("./examples/powershell.ps1") %}

and the following code

```js
var options = {
  pattern: {
    name: 'Powershell',
    nameMatchers: ['.ps1'],
    singleLineComment: [{ start: '#' }],
    multiLineComment: [{ start: '<#', middle: '', end: '#>'}]
  }
}
var comments = require('multilang-extract-comments')(string,options);
```

The variable `comments` now contains:

```json
{%= stringifyPretty(extractCustom(read("./examples/powershell.ps1"))) %}
```

Also have a look at the usage example of `extract-comments`



### API

{%= apidocs("index.js") %}

TODO

## Running tests
{%= include("tests") %}

## Contributing
{%= include("contributing") %}

see [CONTRIBUTING.md](./CONTRIBUTING.md)

## Changelog

see [CHANGELOG.md](./CHANGELOG.md)

## Author
{%= include("author", {github: 'nknapp', twitter: 'knappi79'}) %}

## Related

{%= related(['extract-comments','comment-patterns']) %}


## License
{%= copyright({start: 2015}) %}
{%= license() %}