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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re^2: Want a way to strip comments from a
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Date: 22 Mar 89 18:10:23 GMT
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leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) writes:
\Appearances are deceptive, it won't handle trigraphs. For instance, try:
\??' (trigraph for ^) and your code thinks it is in_char.

My sed script can easily be fixed to handle that case too: just add another
state to the FSM :-)
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