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From: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Want a way to strip comments from a
Message-ID: <978@philmds.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 89 07:24:36 GMT
References: <7150@siemens.UUCP> <9900010@bradley> <4896@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
Organization: Philips I&E DTS Eindhoven
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In article <4896@cbnews.ATT.COM> smk@cbnews.ATT.COM (Stephen M. Kennedy) writes:
|In article <9900010@bradley> brian@bradley.UUCP writes:
|>  The following works in vi: :%s/\/\*.*\*\///g
|
|/* And this */ important_variable = 42 /* doesn't work either! */

And how about:

    puts(" A comment /* in here */");

And you can give more examples showing it isn't that trivial; a challenge
for the sed adept, perhaps ...

   Leo.