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From: greg@uop.EDU (Greg Onufer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: regex for C comments (Found a loophole?)
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Date: 11 Jul 89 23:00:55 GMT
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kearns@read.columbia.edu (Steve Kearns) writes:

>A previous article claimed that 
>>| ----------------------------------------
>>| "/*""/"*([^*/]|[^*]"/"|"*"[^/])*"*"*"*/"
>>| ----------------------------------------

I believe that 

"/*""/"*([^*/]|[^*]"/"|"/*"|"*"[^/])*"*"*"*/"
                       +++++
will work better.

Try   "/* * /* */"  with the previous regex...
I could not claim to know whether or not it is a legal comment, but
the previous regex DOES pass "/* /* */".

Cheers!greg