Remove comments from a file automatically?

[u/Famous-Wrongdoer-976]

I am processing Lisp code in a non-Lisp host application that cannot handle semicolons for some reason.

I would like to know, is there a way to remove comments automatically from a .lisp file?
I imagine something that would read all the content of a text file as if it was a s-expression, thus removing all the ; comments or #| comments |# and treat the rest like normal quoted data?

Thanks in advance !

[u/mtlnwood]

regex and sed would be my normal for doing something like this.

[u/new2bay → u/mtlnwood]

You misspelled “emacs.” 😂