Chas. Owens wrote:
> 
> In general, it doesn't matter if you want to work with a small piece
> of a language or the whole language, you still need to implement a
> parser for the whole language. You can get an eighty or ninety
> percent solution without a full parser, but there will always be
> problems.

That's not true at all. A file containing

int i;

is a valid C file. If the input expected by the OP contains a subset of
the C syntax then it can be parsed as such. C is s subset of C++. Does
that mean that everybody suddenly needs a C++ compiler to compile their
C programs? I think not.

Rob

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