[ILUG] strip comments utility

[JustinMacCarthy]

The regex is pretty difficult for these, but so useful that it is inclued in
the perl FAQ!

Here it for you pleaseure . Perl style

$/ = undef;
    $_ = <>;

s#/\*[^*]*\*+([^/*][^*]*\*+)*/|("(\\.|[^"\\])*"|'(\\.|[^'\\])*'|.[^/"'\\]*)#
$2#gs
    print;

There is a commented (legible) version in the faq  (part 6?) for those with
interest,
+ modification for c++ sytle comments

Justin MacCarthy


>-----Original Message-----
>From: ilug-admin at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-admin at linux.ie]On Behalf Of
>Michael Turley
>Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 8:08 PM
>To: ilug at linux.ie
>Subject: [ILUG] strip comments utility
>
>
>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?
>
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