Add finding positions of docstrings

Signed-off-by: Thomas A. Christensen II <25492070+MillironX@users.noreply.github.com>

nfdocs-parser.py

@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 import sys
 
+# Declare the docstring starting characters
+DOC_STARTER = "/// "
+
 # Take path as single argument for now
 nextflow_path = sys.argv[1]
 with open(nextflow_path) as nextflow_file:
@@ -8,6 +11,29 @@ with open(nextflow_path) as nextflow_file:
     # Split by lines
     nextflow_lines = nextflow_file.readlines()
 
-    # Print the first few lines
+    # Declare some variables to keep track of where the docstrings begin and end
-    for i in range(1, 10):
+    doc_start = 0
-        print(nextflow_lines[i])
+    doc_end = 0
+
+    # Declare dictionaries to keep track of the docstrings
+    docstring_positions = []
+
+    # Calculate the start and end positions of each docstring
+    for i, line in enumerate(nextflow_lines):
+        # Check if this is a docstring
+        if line.startswith(DOC_STARTER):
+            # It is: check the next and previous lines to see if this is part of a block
+            line_previous = nextflow_lines[i-1]
+            line_next = nextflow_lines[i+1]
+            if not line_previous.startswith(DOC_STARTER):
+                doc_start = i
+            if not line_next.startswith(DOC_STARTER):
+                doc_end = i
+
+            # Check if we've reached the end of a docstring block
+            if doc_end == i:
+                # Add this docstring position to the array
+                docstring_positions.append(range(doc_start, doc_end))
+
+    # Display the results so far
+    print(docstring_positions)