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From: kearns@read.columbia.edu (Steve Kearns)
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Subject: Re: regex for C comments
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Date: 11 Jul 89 02:08:52 GMT
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A previous article claimed that 
>| ----------------------------------------
>| "/*""/"*([^*/]|[^*]"/"|"*"[^/])*"*"*"*/"
>| ----------------------------------------

does not match 

>  /***/
>(This one was easy. :-)

A guess it was not so easy.  "/***/" does indeed match the 
above regular expression:

"/*""/"*([^*/]|[^*]"/"|"*"[^/])*"*"*"*/"
       0                       0   1

Under each star I have listed how many times it iterates to match
"/***/".  

-steve