On May 16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I'm trying to Implement a comment extractor from C/C++ Source >files. Before trying to re-invent the wheel., Is there such a tool >already?! My basic purpose is to generate documentation out of the >existing comments. > If there isn't such a tool, can you give me some skeletal >overview of how the code looks like., (Being a newbie... I'm poor in >regexes., and I think (?) , this can be pretty easy with regexps). >Thanks for your help.
You should have checked the Perl FAQ. There is a solution in the documentation: perldoc -q comment Found in /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00502/pod/perlfaq6.pod How do I use a regular expression to strip C style comments from a file? -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
