From: L7 <jesse.r.brown@...>
Date: 2006-09-14T01:55:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular expression question.

Francis Cianfrocca wrote:
> 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 ;-).

Agreed. However, something with '*' characters in it is allowed (so
long as they are not preceeded or followed directly by '/') and that is
where I would get clobbered.

> Why don't you take a pre-pass through your C
> file and take out the comments yourself before you run your main

As I mentioned, that involved a bit of overhead. But with regard to the
project, I assume it is the 'best fix' to what I have.