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From: merlyn@sequent.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Comment recognition in Lex, again
Message-ID: <486@sequent.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 6-May-84 19:41:41 EDT
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Posted: Sun May  6 19:41:41 1984
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> From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP
> Message-ID: <6879@umcp-cs.UUCP>
> Date: Thu, 3-May-84 20:59:25 PDT
> 
> 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...)

Funny, your "working code" doesn't match /***/ .. try it!

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