[ILUG] strip comments utility

[Conor Daly]

On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 01:07:17AM +0000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Smelly Pooh thought:
> In reply to John McCormac's flatulent wordings, 
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Michael Turley wrote:
> > 
> > > Does anyone know of a utility to strip C style (/* */)
> > > comments from code. I have a rake of stuff with alot
> > > of CVSg material which I would like to remove. Does
> > > CVS have this type of functionality?
> > 
> > You could try something along the lines of:
> > 
> > perl -p -i.bak -e 's/oldstring/newstring/g' filename
> > 
> > The incantation for the comments would be something along the lines of
> > [\/*][a-zA-Z0-9-.,]*[*\/] though that may blow the machine up and do
> > irreprable harm. Perhaps some of the Regexp experts here could give the
> > right incantation.
> 
> cpp will strip comments, but also add stuff in include files
> 
> perl wise... 
> 
> perl -n -e 'print unless (/\/\*/ .. /\*\//)' filename
> 
> should do fine
> 
Will that work across lines also (since you can use comments of the form

/* First line
 * Second line
 * Last line */
)?
-- 
Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net>

Domestic Sysadmin :-)