Ability to remove empty special comments?

[spacedawwwg]

Is it possible to set up decomment to remove empty special comments?

use case is that I inject CSS and JS, but some pages do not have IE only assets.

I'd like to strip out the empty conditional comments if possible?

[vitaly-t]

At the moment this library can strip all <!--[if ...--> comments. Are you asking if it could remove only the ones that are empty?

[spacedawwwg]

Yes, just the empty ones.

On 30 Mar 2016, at 12:59, Vitaly Tomilov notifications@github.com wrote:

At the moment this library can strip all comments. Are you asking if it could remove only the ones that are empty?

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[vitaly-t]

Yes, it is possible, via option ignore. You would set it to a regular expression that defines non-empty conditional blocks, so only the empty ones will be removed.

But considering your case, are you actually removing anything else at all? Because if not, then you can do the same without decomment at all ;)

Well, sort of, beside all the extra useful options like space or trim ;)

[vitaly-t]

I've started with /<!\-\-\[if[\w\-]*\](?!\s+$).*\-\->/g here: https://regex101.com/ but it is not complete yet, you need to finish it yourself ;)

[spacedawwwg]

@vitaly-t Thank you.

I've got a "regex buddy" who helps me with these. I'll get him on the case for me (this is currently beyond my skill set).

[vitaly-t]

n.p. once you have the right regex, post it here, please, to share with others ;)