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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Give me your strings.
Message-ID: <15312@megatest.UUCP>
Date: 15 Feb 91 23:12:16 GMT
References: <16720@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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From article <16720@crdgw1.crd.ge.com), by hoffman@nunki.crd.ge.com (William A. Hoffman):
) :...  I'm looking for an executable that knows enough C
) :(or Pascal, ...) syntax to isolate string constants, and echo them out
) :to a file (possibly stdout).
) 
) 
) What about a simple lex program: string.lex
) [omited...]

The posted program will return parts of C comments that look like
strings.