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From: lfoard@wpi.wpi.edu (Lawrence C Foard)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: not the way ... (was Re: Want a way to strip comments from a)
Message-ID: <1492@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 24 Mar 89 07:01:02 GMT
References: <7150@siemens.UUCP> <9900010@bradley> <4221@omepd.UUCP> <425@chem.ucsd.EDU>
Reply-To: lfoard@wpi.wpi.edu (Lawrence C Foard)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. USA
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I tried the comment stripper I poster earlier today on these pathological
cases and it seems to get the right answer.

Script started on Fri Mar 24 01:56:10 1989
% cat tmp3.tmp
        Commented                  should be
	/ /* / */                #   /
	/*****//hello world */   #  /hello world */
	/* hello /* /* world */  # 
	/* */ hello /* */        #   hello
	/**// /* this input should produce "/ \n" for output */      #     /
	/* */ hello */           #   hello */


% ../tmp/a.out <tmp3.tmp
        Commented                  should be
	/                 #   /
	/hello world */   #  /hello world */
	  # 
	 hello         #   hello
	/       #     /
	 hello */           #   hello */


% ^D
script done on Fri Mar 24 01:56:36 1989

Now the only question is did I parse it right?

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