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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Nawk and Non-Commentary Source Code Listing
Message-ID: <3755@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 89 21:52:05 GMT
References: <6257@homxc.ATT.COM>
Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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From article <6257@homxc.ATT.COM>, by bgt@homxc.ATT.COM (B.TONGUE):
> 
> Concerning ncsl, is there a nawk program which would accomplish
> the same thing in a fraction of the time?  Seems that searching
> a line for a pattern ( /*..[..]..*/ ) or ( #..) shouldn't be
> that difficult - what am I overlooking?
> 



String literals, multiple line comments, and (shudder) preprocessor
directives.