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/**
 * Strips single and multi line JavaScript comments from JSON
 * content. Ignores characters in strings BUT doesn't support
 * string continuation across multiple lines since it is not
 * supported in JSON.
 * @param content the content to strip comments from
 * @returns the content without comments
*/
export function stripComments(content: string): string;