Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!philmds!leo
From: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: request for C comment stripper
Message-ID: <985@philmds.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 89 18:32:04 GMT
References: <5693@ux.cs.man.ac.uk>
Reply-To: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
Organization: Philips I&E DTS Eindhoven
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In article <5693@ux.cs.man.ac.uk> ian@ux.cs.man.ac.uk (Ian Cottam) writes:
|
|I usually use a lex script for such things.  I didn't have one for
|C, but the following might do the trick.  N.B.  Not tested, not proven,
|no warranty!

	 [lex script omitted]

This will cover most ordinary cases; but not this one:

(startcom.h is either empty or contains a /* ).

main()
{
    puts("Testing 1");
#include "startcom.h"
    puts("Testing 2");
/*
    puts("Testing 3");
*/
}

The second puts should get commented out or not, depending on the
contents of the header file.
OK, I'll admit, it is a bit far-fetched 8-); it however proves once
again that it isn't exactly trivial to do the general case right.

	 Leo.