From: Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@...>
Date: 2006-09-14T01:40:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular expression question.

On 9/13/06, L7 <jesse.r.brown@gmail.com> wrote:
> In trying to parse a C source file I have the following section of
> code:
>
Remember that in C, nested comment-blocks are not permitted, for the
incredibly good reason that they are not recognizable by
regular-expressions ;-). Why don't you take a pre-pass through your C
file and take out the comments yourself before you run your main
parse? A recursive-descent parser to do the job would probably take
almost no code at all in Ruby.