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From: rupley@arizona.edu (John Rupley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Want a way to strip comments from a
Summary: Aw, c'mon...
Message-ID: <9862@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 23 Mar 89 23:26:24 GMT
References: <7150@siemens.UUCP> <9900010@bradley> <4896@cbnews.ATT.COM> <1179@masscomp.UUCP>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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In article <1179@masscomp.UUCP>, ftw@masscomp.UUCP (Farrell Woods) writes:
>In article <9833@megaron.arizona.edu> rupley@arizona.edu (John Rupley) writes:
>>This one fails, too.  Try:
>>	/***/ hi there /**/
>
>Shouldn't it be a requirement that the program to be stripped at least compile?
>This example will generate a syntax error.

Aw, c'mon... be imaginative... replace "hi there" by a proper statement or
whatever:

	/***/ main() {printf("hi there\n");} /**/

Cpp strips the comments (properly) and passes the program text.  The buggy
C code, which was being discussed in the previous posting, strips everything.
Both of the earlier Lex postings do it right, which would seem to be the
take-home lesson.

John Rupley
rupley!local@megaron.arizona.edu