Revisions to Deleting (some) comments from a C program

Corrected the code

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edited Jun 18, 2019 at 10:20

Tested with sed command and worked fine

command:

  sed -r "s/^\s+//g" filename|sedfilename| sed '/^\/\*.*\*\/$/d'

output:

printf("It is /* Comment 2 */\n");
x = 5; /* Comment 3 */
/* Comment 5 */ y = 0;
/*
* Comment 6
*/
// Comment 7

Tested with sed command and worked fine

command:

sed -r "s/^\s+//g" filename|sed '/^\/\*.*\*\/$/d'

output:

printf("It is /* Comment 2 */\n");
x = 5; /* Comment 3 */
/* Comment 5 */ y = 0;

Tested with sed command and worked fine

command:

  sed -r "s/^\s+//g" filename| sed '/^\/\*.*\*\/$/d'

output:

printf("It is /* Comment 2 */\n");
x = 5; /* Comment 3 */
/* Comment 5 */ y = 0;
/*
* Comment 6
*/
// Comment 7

Removed the command from the output ; added 4 characters in body; added 1 character in body

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edited May 22, 2019 at 15:58

Tested with sed command and worked fine

command:sed -r "s/^\s+//g" filename|sed '/^\/\*.*\*\/$/d'

output

sed -r "s/^\s+//g" filename|sed '/^\/\*.*\*\/$/d'

output:

printf("It is /* Comment 2 */\n");
x = 5; /* Comment 3 */
/* Comment 5 */ y = 0;

Tested with sed command and worked fine

command:sed -r "s/^\s+//g" filename|sed '/^\/\*.*\*\/$/d'

output

sed -r "s/^\s+//g" filename|sed '/^\/\*.*\*\/$/d' 
printf("It is /* Comment 2 */\n");
x = 5; /* Comment 3 */
/* Comment 5 */ y = 0;

Tested with sed command and worked fine

command:

sed -r "s/^\s+//g" filename|sed '/^\/\*.*\*\/$/d'

output:

printf("It is /* Comment 2 */\n");
x = 5; /* Comment 3 */
/* Comment 5 */ y = 0;

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answered May 22, 2019 at 15:25

Tested with sed command and worked fine

command:sed -r "s/^\s+//g" filename|sed '/^\/\*.*\*\/$/d'

output

sed -r "s/^\s+//g" filename|sed '/^\/\*.*\*\/$/d' 
printf("It is /* Comment 2 */\n");
x = 5; /* Comment 3 */
/* Comment 5 */ y = 0;

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