Is there a way to modify or remove comments?

[jokey35]

In the AST, there is no comment node, but after generating code again from AST, there are the original comments. Can I at least remove them when generating code from AST?

[nikic]

The comments are stored as attributes on the node. There are some APIs for manipulating them:

PHP-Parser/lib/PhpParser/Node.php

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	/**
	* Gets all comments directly preceding this node.
	*
	* The comments are also available through the "comments" attribute.
	*
	* @return Comment[]
	*/
	public function getComments(): array;
	/**
	* Gets the doc comment of the node.
	*
	* @return null|Comment\Doc Doc comment object or null
	*/
	public function getDocComment(): ?Comment\Doc;
	/**
	* Sets the doc comment of the node.
	*
	* This will either replace an existing doc comment or add it to the comments array.
	*
	* @param Comment\Doc $docComment Doc comment to set
	*/
	public function setDocComment(Comment\Doc $docComment): void;

There is no direct API to drop comments, but you can use $node->setAttribute('comments', []).