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multiline.js
// TODO: longer method name
Function.prototype.extractBlockCommentAsMultilineString = function() {
return this.toString().match(/^function \(\)\{\s*\/\*((?:[^*]|\*+[^*\/])*)\*+\/\s*\}$/)[1];
};
var s = function(){/*
STRING
GOES
HERE
*/}.extractBlockCommentAsMultilineString();
console.log("\r\n\tSTRING\r\n\tGOES\r\n\tHERE\r\n" === s); // true, possibly
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riking commented Aug 17, 2015

extractMultilineStringFromFunctionContainingOnlyABlockComment()

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qntm commented Oct 16, 2023

This was funnier before template literals.

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