lew@gsg.UUCP (Paul Lew) (03/26/89)
In article <9881@megaron.arizona.edu> rupley@arizona.edu (John Rupley) writes: > >Why strip comments? (1) the original poster had a broken compiler that choked >on comments; (2) the start of a cheap way to get a list or inverted index of >identifiers (cpp does too much). One more use: I use it to find possible absolute pathnames in C files (one thing I do to comp.sources posting). $ rmcmt *.[ch] | grep / This is easy and very effective. With comments this becomes difficult. -- Paul Lew {oliveb,harvard,decvax}!gsg!lew (UUCP) General Systems Group, 5 Manor Parkway, Salem, NH 03079 (603) 893-1000