From: Daniel Lucraft <dan@...>
Date: 2007-09-19T21:17:41+09:00
Subject: Re: how can I remove all the comments in my c program.

Sebastian Hungerecker wrote:
> Vellingiri Arul wrote:
>> Dear Friends,
>>      using The Ruby how can I remove all the comments in my c program.
>>      I have tried to do using the regular expression.
>
> If you want something that works reliably, you would need to use a 
> C-parser
> rather than regular expressions.

It is actually possible to do this reliably using regular expressions, 
but it's not straightforward.

Try translating this into Ruby regexp:
http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq6.html#How-do-I-use-a-regular-expression-to-strip-C-style-comments-from-a-file%3f

best,
Dan
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