From: Isaac Waldron <waldroni AT lr DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Utility to strip comments from C/C++ source?
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 16:21:15 -0500
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pneyz wrote:

> Is there a DJGPP utility to strip comments from files? I started coding
> one then realized someone's probably already done it and it would save
> me the trouble.
>
> If there isn't one, I'd like to submit the one I write (if I have to) to
> the next release. Does anyone think this would be a (semi-)useful
> utility?
>
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>    pneyz / Smoof Team              pneyz AT bethany DOT edu
>    "Fine Malt Coding"              http://ns.bethany.edu/pneyz/
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Just a thought,

I don't understand why you would want to remove comments from a source
file.  They were put there by the author so that others could understand
exactly what the code is doing.  They are much more of a help than a
hinderance.


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