On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 09:18:49PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi Perl Gurus,
>           I'm trying to Implement a comment extractor from C/C++ Source
> files. 

....

> (Being a newbie... I'm poor in
> regexes., and I think (?) , this can be pretty easy with regexps).

Actually no, it's not easy.

C++ comments (//...) are no problem since they end at EOL, but the
others (/* ... */) are plain evil, especially with compiler flags for
allowing nested comments.

Look for Text::Balance, that should get you started.

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