IntelliJ Idea: How to automatically remove commented out code?

Question

I've run SonarQube analysis on my Android/Java project and it resulted, among others, with issues:

Sections of code should not be "commented out"

If SonarQube is able to identify them, is it possible to automatically commented out code in Android Studio? I can't just remove all comments, because there are also some that are legit.

I have 500+ of them and don't want to do it manually. Any ideas?

Armenta

So you're wanting to automatically remove some, but not all, commented code from your project? – Disillusion

No, I'd like to remove all commented lines which are commented out executable code. I want to keep commented lines which are javadocs, notes, descriptions etc. SonarQube somehow can tell which is which. – Armenta

Anyone has this problem before and came up with solution? – Minium

Did you manage to find a way to delete commented code in Android Studio? – Karyoplasm

Unfortunately, I haven't come up with any out-of-the-box solution. – Armenta

Answer 1

There is no general solution for issues reported by SonarQube since SonarQube only finds problems, it doesn't offer a way to fix them.

In this particular case of commented out code, the same check is available directly in IntelliJ.

• from the menu, select "Code | Analyze Code | Run Inspection by Name"
• type "commented" to select the inspection about commented code
• run it on the whole project

This inspection now lists the occurrences, and the Problems tool window offers you to fix all of them at once.

Paronomasia