Delete comments from source code files

sourceCodeRemover.py

#developed by @ep4sh
import re
import sys
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# USAGE (from terminal):
# python sourceCodeRemover.py  <source_code_name>
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# .NET +
# Python +-
# JS +
# JAVA +
# GO +
# C / C++ +
# CSS +
# PHP +
# Ruby +-
# Shell +


def rmCComment(string):
    string = re.sub(re.compile("/\*.*?\*/",re.DOTALL) ,"" ,string)
    string = re.sub(re.compile(r"(\".*?\"|\'.*?\')|(/\*.*?\*/|//[^\r\n]*$)") ,"" ,string)
    return string

def rmShellComment(string):
    string = re.sub(re.compile(r"(#.*)",re.MULTILINE),"" ,string)
    return string

with open(sys.argv[1],"r") as file:
    for line in file:
        with open(sys.argv[1] + "_new", "a") as file2:
            file2.writelines(rmShellComment(rmCComment(line)))
        file2.close()
    file.close()