[ILUG] strip comments utility

[Smelly Pooh]

In reply to John McCormac's flatulent wordings, 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Michael Turley wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone know of a utility to strip C style (/* */)
> > comments from code. I have a rake of stuff with alot
> > of CVSg material which I would like to remove. Does
> > CVS have this type of functionality?
> 
> You could try something along the lines of:
> 
> perl -p -i.bak -e 's/oldstring/newstring/g' filename
> 
> The incantation for the comments would be something along the lines of
> [\/*][a-zA-Z0-9-.,]*[*\/] though that may blow the machine up and do
> irreprable harm. Perhaps some of the Regexp experts here could give the
> right incantation.

cpp will strip comments, but also add stuff in include files

perl wise... 

perl -n -e 'print unless (/\/\*/ .. /\*\//)' filename

should do fine