Want a way to strip comments from a

[Joel Loo]

In article <978 at philmds.UUCP>, leo at philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) writes:
> In article <4896 at cbnews.ATT.COM> smk at cbnews.ATT.COM (Stephen M. Kennedy) writes:
> |In article <9900010 at bradley> brian at bradley.UUCP writes:
> |>  The following works in vi: :%s/\/\*.*\*\///g
> |
> |/* And this */ important_variable = 42 /* doesn't work either! */
> 
> And how about:
> 
>     puts(" A comment /* in here */");
> 
> And you can give more examples showing it isn't that trivial; a challenge
> for the sed adept, perhaps ...
> 
>    Leo.

[And a lot of previous articles on the same topic]

The problem is: sed and vi do not understand C syntax.

Solution: write a lex program to strip comments. The program must
understand C syntax enough to know what is a comment and what is not.

Encouragement: it should not be too difficult.

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