Re: Re: removing C style comments from text files

so within ysth restrictions, if one wants a one-liner perl -0777 -pe 's{/\*.*?\*/}{}gs' source.c my .02

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Re: Re: Re: removing C style comments from text files by ctp (Beadle) on Jan 07, 2004 at 04:05 UTC
I just tried it and it worked! I've never seen a regex contained in braces before...and what's the deal with the empty braces at the end? thanks!	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: removing C style comments from text files by dominix (Deacon) on Jan 07, 2004 at 08:30 UTC
you can use brace in place of traditional // in match `m{ } <=> m/ / and in searchreplace s{what}{replace}imsogxe <=> s/what/replace/imsogxe` [download] in perlretut you have these examples. `"/World/", "m!World!", and "m{World}" all represent the same thing.` so the empty Brace means "replace with nothing" -- dominix	[reply] [d/l] [select]