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Hi, thanks for the post.

Have you checked out the built-in Comment.CStyle parser? https://github.com/datalust/superpower/blob/dev/src/Superpower/Parsers/Comment.cs#L75

Cheers,
Nick

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Hi Nick,
Many thanks for replying back.
The answer is yes, have seen that parser but could not figure out how to use it from within my declared Comment. E.g

        public static readonly TextParser<string> MultiLineComment =
            from open in OpenMultilineComment
            from rest in Character.AnyChar.ManyDelimitedBy(CloseMultilineComment)
            from close in CloseMultilineComment
            select rest.AsString();

        public static readonly TextParser<string> Comment 
            = SingleLineComment.Try()
            .Or(MultiLineComment.Try());

Is it the case can only use it from within a tokenizer?

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Sorry about the lack of an answer here - I hope you figured this one out; if not, please jump back in! :-)

(There are two main approaches to handling comments; discard them at the tokenization stage, or, create a combinator that attaches leading/trailing trivia to the results of other parsers; it sounds like you're after the latter.)

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