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From: rjhurdal@watmath.UUCP (David Canzi)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Comment recognition in Lex, again
Message-ID: <7666@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 4-May-84 17:58:05 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  4 17:58:05 1984
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The puzzles in net.unix-wizards are better than the ones in net.puzzle.
I blew two hours composing this:
	"/*"[^*]*"*"+([^*/][^*]*"*"+)*"/" printf("<<<%s>>>", yytext) ;
and tested it on this input:
	asdqwa/*/asaas*/werwer
	sdf/**/sdfsdf/***/erwerwer
	cvb/*tdfg*/*xcvcv*/werwe
	ty/bcvb/*******/***/fssdf
and it appears to work.  Please let me know if you come up with cases
where it doesn't work...