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hey, i was bored yesterday and coded this in about 2 hours. Hope you guys find it useful. Tell me what you think? it is ment for single char '\n' terminated comments. So it won't really work for C but it works great with asm and sql code.

<a href="http://www.osdever.net/temp/xsism/remove.zip" target="newwin">Get it here.</a>

i hope this board allows html

Why would you want to _remove_ comments?  (I'm simply guessing by the .zip name... I'm at work, and can't download the actual app...)

Unless you're stealing/borrowing/using someone elses code constantly and don't want anyone to know...?

Cheers,
Jeff

oh yeah, that's it, i was stealing some code from like 20 diff people, and they all had different comment methods

no

kj and i were actually backing up our mysql DB and there was a problem importing it to a diff version mysql so we had to take out a ton o '#' comments but there was too many. So i made this thing real fast used it and added some functionality after the basic idea worked.

It may come in handy for cutting down on src size if you want a clean, commentless tree? I'm sure there are plenty of uses. Besides, ocde is easier to read when it isn't litered with comments.

mr. xsism

Fair enough   I've actually had similar issues with my web server not liking mysqldump's -- comments.  However, this is where awk really comes in handy, though...

/^--/ { skip=1}
{
  if(skip == 0) print $0;
  skip = 0
}

That's what I use to remove 'em   If you're using a unix system, you should check it out... you can do some pretty trippy stuff in even less time...

Cheers,
Jeff

kool, when i'm in linux next time i'll check it out. I use linux occasionally

mr. xsism