From: Marcin Raczkowski Date: 2007-09-19T22:42:09+09:00 Subject: Re: how can I remove all the comments in my c program. On Web wrote: > "Vellingiri Arul" wrote in message > news:7c7bc7fff388569ccf579f1c079d6760@ruby-forum.com... >> Dear Friends, >> using The Ruby how can I remove all the comments in my c program. >> For example I have mentioned c program ,that may be ruby program >> for your purpose you assume. >> I have tried to do using the regular expression. >> But I was unable to find the anser for this. > > Why would anyone want to remove the comments from a program? > > Paul > >> Please any one tell me. >> >> By >> Vellingiri. >> -- >> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. >> > > > > becouse they have to release it as open source becouse of GPL or other OS license and they want to make imposible to actually use that code by striping comments and obscuring code.