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Regular expression to fetch comments in C using Python - pikkip - Jan-23-2017
I am coding a program in Python to fetch comments in a C program( both single and multiline). What regular expression should be used for this?
RE: Regular expression to fetch comments in C using Python - micseydel - Jan-23-2017
What have you tried?
RE: Regular expression to fetch comments in C using Python - pikkip - Jan-24-2017
I am having issues with lines containing the code and the comment like:
printf("hai) // prints hai
c = c + 1 /* htshgbxbvxvbxvxxzv
fgdhdhgdghfcncnbc
arabcnbchcjc */I am not able to categorize the kind of characters that can come up before the comment in 1 and 2. ( . )* doesn't help. Is there any other way to sum up them all rather than specifying them individually?
RE: Regular expression to fetch comments in C using Python - Ofnuts - Jan-24-2017
http://blog.ostermiller.org/find-comment
RE: Regular expression to fetch comments in C using Python - wavic - Jan-24-2017
Well, chek if there is '//' or '*/' in the row. If it is, split the row by '//' or '*/', get the text with in the list which appers to be the comment ( this sould be row[1] ). Then if that is '*/' just take every row until you find '*/'. This is step by step. You can rid off the white space characters using str.strip() function. If you need to.