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You can try a naive approach to match non-comments like this:

 $ egrep -v "^(//|/\*| \*)" sourcecode

This will only reverseinverse match against prefixed comments - that is lines starting with either //, /*, * or */ - and hence it'll not leave out blocks that are commented out with the /* and */ pair.

You can try a naive approach to match non-comments like this:

 $ egrep -v "^(//|/\*| \*)" sourcecode

This will only reverse match against prefixed comments - that is lines starting with either //, /*, * or */ - and hence it'll not leave out blocks that are commented out with the /* and */ pair.

You can try a naive approach to match non-comments like this:

 $ egrep -v "^(//|/\*| \*)" sourcecode

This will only inverse match against prefixed comments - that is lines starting with either //, /*, * or */ - and hence it'll not leave out blocks that are commented out with the /* and */ pair.

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You can try a naive approach to match non-comments like this:

 $ egrep -v "^(//|/\*| \*)" sourcecode

This will only reverse match against prefixed comments - that is lines starting with either //, /*, * or */ - and hence it'll not leave out blocks that are commented out with the /* and */ pair.

You can try a naive approach like this:

 $ egrep -v "^(//|/\*| \*)" sourcecode

You can try a naive approach to match non-comments like this:

 $ egrep -v "^(//|/\*| \*)" sourcecode

This will only reverse match against prefixed comments - that is lines starting with either //, /*, * or */ - and hence it'll not leave out blocks that are commented out with the /* and */ pair.

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You can try a naive approach like this:

 $ egrep -v "^(//|/\*| \*)" sourcecode