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From: stil@nikhefh.hep.nl (Gertjan Stil)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Want a way to strip comments from a
Keywords: Comments
Message-ID: <615@nikhefh.hep.nl>
Date: 29 Mar 89 10:09:06 GMT
Expires: 31 Dec 69 23:59:59 GMT
References: <7150@siemens.UUCP> <9900010@bradley> <4895@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: stil@nikhefh.hep.nl (Gertjan Stil)
Organization: Nikhef-H, Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
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In article <4895@cbnews.ATT.COM> smk@cbnews.ATT.COM (Stephen M. Kennedy) writes:
>In article <9900010@bradley> brian@bradley.UUCP writes:
>>  The following works in vi: :%s/\/\*.*\*\///g
>
>/*
> * Unfortunately, multi-line comments aren't deleted.
> */

What about the following command in vi:  :%s/\/\*[.|\n]*\*\///g

This will work for multi-line comments.

Gertjan Stil

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