Re: C comment extraction, or a bag .deb of small commands

[Richard Kettlewell <rjk@terraraq.org.uk>]

"H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@quickfur.ath.cx> writes:
> But as someone pointed out, this totally doesn't handle /*'s and
> //'s appearing inside quoted strings. I overlooked that aspect of
> it.  Nevertheless, it *must* be possible to write a regex for it,
> since mathematically speaking, a finite state machine is powerful
> enough to tokenize C. Of course, that doesn't say anything about how
> complex the regex might have to be to cover all cases. :-)

Rather than producing a new program, why not add the feature you want
to an existing C preprocessor (say, GCC), since that does the
tokenization correctly already?

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