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From: brian@bradley.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Want a way to strip comments from a
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Date: 13 Mar 89 23:48:00 GMT
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Nf-From: bradley.UUCP!brian    Mar 13 17:48:00 1989


> /* Written  9:58 am  Mar  9, 1989 by jrv@siemens.UUCP */
> /* ---------- "Want a way to strip comments from a" ---------- */
>                          Does anyone have a sed or awk script which we
> can use to preprocess the C source and get rid of all the comments before
> sending it to the compiler?

  The following works in vi: :%s/\/\*.*\*\///g

  I don't know if it will work in sed, but it should...

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