text: # Author: Dennis Yakovlev 
  
  # File for functions related to parsing single line (//) comments
  # These comments are at the end of any code and span until the end of the line
  
  import re
  
  def _find_normal_single(s):
      ''' Find a single line comment in line where no double quote string literal exist.
          Consequently, any // found WILL be the start of a comment.
      '''
  
      return re.search('\/\/', s)
  
  def _comment_single_start(s):
      ''' Look for the start of a single line comment (//).
      '''
  
      res = re.search(r'\/\/', s)
      return res.span()[0] if res != None else -1