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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re^2: Want a way to strip comments from a
Keywords: Comments
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Date: 30 Mar 89 04:11:12 GMT
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stil@nikhefh.hep.nl (Gertjan Stil) writes:
\What about the following command in vi:  :%s/\/\*[.|\n]*\*\///g

\This will work for multi-line comments.

Really? Try it yourself (before posting)!
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