/** Strip `//` line comments and trailing commas from JSON, leaving string literals untouched. */ export function stripJsonComments(input: string): string { return input .replace(/"(?:\\.|[^"\\])*"|\/\/[^\n]*/g, (m) => (m[0] === '"' ? m : "")) .replace(/"(?:\\.|[^"\\])*"|,(\s*[}\]])/g, (m, tail) => tail ?? (m[0] === '"' ? m : "")); }