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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Comment recognition in Lex, again
Message-ID: <6879@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-May-84 23:59:25 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  3 23:59:25 1984
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Organization: Univ. of Maryland, Computer Science Dept.
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A Lex expression that matches C comments:

	comment			"/*"(\*[^/]|[^*]*)*"*/"

(The * after the first ] shouldn't be necessary, I think, but you
did specify that the expression come from working code...)
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