On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 04:28:54PM +0100, Andreas Lubensky wrote:
> i'm having some trouble building a regular expression to filter out C
> and C++ style comments (//... /*...*/). I constructed various regular
>
> "((/\\*([^\\*]|(\\*+([^\\*/])))*\\*+/)|(//[^\r\n]*))"
I don't think RE are the right tool for this job. You probably want a
little state machine instead (something like 'while (token != '*/') {
skip_token() }).
Why are you trying to do this? Can you do the parsing in a "real"
scripting language instead of in CMake?
tyler
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