Why strip comment (was: Want a way to strip comments ...)

[Paul Lew]

In article <9881 at megaron.arizona.edu> rupley at arizona.edu (John Rupley) writes:
>
>Why strip comments? (1) the original poster had a broken compiler that choked
>on comments; (2) the start of a cheap way to get a list or inverted index of
>identifiers (cpp does too much).

One more use: I use it to find possible absolute pathnames in C files (one
thing I do to comp.sources posting).

	$ rmcmt *.[ch] | grep /

This is easy and very effective.  With comments this becomes difficult.
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