Hi Marco,
>Yes, perhaps the best approach is to detect context I agree on this :-) "Context" is the keyword ... >C code, to "parse out" comments and strings, then handling the remaining >portions with regular expressions (if not with a dedicated tokenizer, >especially if speed is a concern). I don't think that the routine will be simple. If you want to do _simple_ matching of c comments then yes, it will be simple (it's easier to hardcode a routine to make a routine generic). But think about it - if you solve this problem you should be able to implement "folded functions" easily (another high hitter on my top ten list :-) I think that a dedicated parser taking the input of a list of delimiters is the way to go :-) (As you also suggest - but not necessarily for speed reasons :-) Kind regards, Brian -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
