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From: cdold@starfish.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Want a way to strip comments from a C file
Message-ID: <972@starfish.Convergent.COM>
Date: 17 Mar 89 17:11:38 GMT
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From article <4060@ttidca.TTI.COM>, by hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath):
> In article <880@m10ux.UUCP> mnc@m10ux.UUCP (Michael Condict) writes:
> }I recently posted to this group a shell script that calls three sed scripts
> }to extract function prototypes from (practically) any C source.  One of the
> }three sed scripts consisted of little more than comment removal -- exactly
> }what you are looking for.  Here is the relevant portion:

I managed to miss the original question, but none of the replies I've seen
use the compiler to strip comments.
From UNIX cpp target.c will strip off the comments.
From Microsoft QuickC, QCL -E target.c will strip the comments.

Since both cases are a part of a normal compile, they have to be 
'double-escape/ comment in a comment'- proof.

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