Do you have a favorite method of removing C-style inline and multiline comments from code?
Removing trailing tabs that were before them and resulting double lines is a plus.
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@dexter
IIUC,
$ gcc -fpreprocessed -dD -E -P file.c > no_comments.c
should do the trick. You really need a proper C/C++ aware lexer/parser because while simple substitutions
:%s@\_s*//.*\n/\r
in Vim can get thrown off by "//" or "/*…*/" embedded in string-constants. There are additional complexities with multi-line strings and nested comments. I'm not sure if you also intend to take into consideration ": #if 0" blocks.
@dexter Hmmm, I think I'd do it in sed, but probably not 100% accurately.
@dexter Block comments are particularly hard for anything that processes line-at-a-time and tries to use regular expressions, even though it's a trivial DFA when processing character-by-character. Perl's multiline REs could do it easily if you can read the entire input into a scalar.
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