How to parse comments with FParsec

Question

I\'m attempting to parse lisp-style comments from an s-expression language with FParsec. I got a bit of help with parsing single-line comments in this previous thread - How

Answer 1

Try changing the bool argument for closeMultilineCommentStr to false

(charsTillString closeMultilineCommentStr false System.Int32.MaxValue)

Otherwise it will skip over the closeMultilineCommentStr string.

To make it work with nested comments

let rec multilineComment o=
    let ign x = charsTillString x false System.Int32.MaxValue
    between
        (pstring openMultilineCommentStr)
        (pstring closeMultilineCommentStr)
        (attempt (ign openMultilineCommentStr >>. multilineComment >>. ign closeMultilineCommentStr) <|> 
        ign closeMultilineCommentStr) <|o