Re: need regex help to strip things like embedded C comments


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Re: need regex help to strip things like embedded C comments

by syphilis (Archbishop)

on Jul 22, 2007 at 00:44 UTC ( [id://628054]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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in reply to need regex help to strip things like embedded C comments

Hi Eradicatore,

You can't embed comments like that in C:

C:\_32\C>type try.c
/* this is a test
 * c file  /* with an embedded comment */
 * in the middle
 *
 */

int main(void)
{
   int a;
   int b;
   return 0;
}


C:\_32\C>gcc -o try.exe try.c
try.c:3: error: syntax error before "the"
try.c:11: error: syntax error before "return"

C:\_32\C>
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The comment is deemed to end at the first occurrence of */.

Cheers,
Rob