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Re: Re: Can `cpp' strip off comments in C source code?
Things are a little complicated. I've googled a sed script on:
http://sed.sourceforge.net/grabbag/scripts/remccoms2.sh.txt
But the script can't handle this testcase:
printf("/* Haha \n"); /* Haha */
printf("// Haha \n"); // Haha
I think a simple regular expression filter is not enough. A lexical parsing is required to ensure the results come out right in all cases.
A prefessional utility is more suitable than a script written by me since I am not an expert in ANSI C standard.
>AWK itself can do it, as can sed.