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While your proposal needs less memory, it can go wrong as well. Should the comment start or end on a line with code outside of the comments, the whole line and the code will be removed. The regex also needs to be more sophisticated to ignore "/*" ie should the characters be quoted.

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Re^3: joining lines efficiency?
by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Jun 10, 2013 at 16:16 UTC
    The regex also needs to ... ignore "/*" ie should the characters be quoted.

    It should also handle stuff like this, which compiles and runs just fine: 

    #include <stdio.h>
#include <assert.h>

void main (int argc, char ** argv) {

    int x = 4;
    int y = 2;

    int * p = &y;

    assert(x/*p == 12345  /* p points to y */);

    printf("everything looks just fine \n");

    }

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