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From: jeenglis@nunki.usc.edu (Joe English)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Want a way to strip comments from a
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Date: 19 Mar 89 23:51:03 GMT
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Reply-To: jeenglis@nunki.usc.edu (Joe English)
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I made a mistake in the comment-eating program I
posted yesterday -- it won't handle

/* something like *//* this. */

Change the line in the '/' case from:

    if ((ch = getchar()) == '*') { eatcomment(); ch=getchar(); }

to:

    if ((ch = getchar()) == '*') { eatcomment(); ch=getchar(); continue; }

and it will work.  If anyone's interested.


--Joe English

  jeenglis@nunki.usc.edu