Want a way to strip comments from a

[K.LAUX]

In article <9900010 at bradley>, brian at bradley.UUCP writes:
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| > /* Written  9:58 am  Mar  9, 1989 by jrv at siemens.UUCP */
| > /* ---------- "Want a way to strip comments from a" ---------- */
| >                          Does anyone have a sed or awk script which we
| > can use to preprocess the C source and get rid of all the comments before
| > sending it to the compiler?
| 
|   The following works in vi: :%s/\/\*.*\*\///g
| 
|   I don't know if it will work in sed, but it should...
| 

	Yes, it will.  The only problem is that it won't strip out comments
that span more than one line...'Aye, There's the Rub.

--rkl