On 12/24/07, PRC <panruochen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > > Here's an AWK solution for you: http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Comp/comp.lang.awk/2006-03/msg00200.html See if it suits your needs. For something like this, I think awk might be more capable than sed... not sure, though.