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[Doug Gwyn]

In article <-286619997 at hpcupt1.cup.hp.com> jamiller at hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Jim Miller) writes:
>Granted, there might be cases where // might be in a literal, but
>a quick look with fgrep should find those for you and then take additional
>action (in a awk script).
>O.K., so what am I so stupid that I'm not seeing?

// may also be in a /*...*/ comment.

I once wrote a utility to de-// such source code; it implemented an FSA
and had something like twenty states as I recall.  It wasn't trivial but
it also wasn't all that difficult.