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From: mnc@m10ux.UUCP (Michael Condict)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Want a way to strip comments from a
Summary: lex script to delete comments from C source
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Date: 24 Mar 89 05:17:17 GMT
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Oops, the previous lex script I posted for deleting comments from
C source code is incorrect -- it doesn't recognize:  /***...**/
Here is a better one (simpler, too):

	%%
	\"([^\\"]*\\(.|\n))*[^\\"]*\"	ECHO;
	"/*"([^*]|"*"+[^/*])*"*"*"*/"	;
	.				ECHO;

Okay, I promise to stop now.  (Unless there is a bug in this one.)
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