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From: tps@chem.ucsd.edu (Tom Stockfisch)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Want a way to strip comments from a C file
Message-ID: <427@chem.ucsd.EDU>
Date: 25 Mar 89 07:03:30 GMT
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In article <891@m10ux.UUCP> mnc@m10ux.UUCP (Michael Condict) writes:
#----------- Lex script to delete comments from C source code ----------------
#%%
#\"([^\\"]*\\(.|\n))*[^\\"]*\"	ECHO;
#"/*"([^*]*"*"[^/])*[^*]*"*/"	;
#.				ECHO;
#Can anyone find anything wrong with this one (he asks stupidly)?

Fails on
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