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The bottom half of Re: C comment stripping preprocessor (problems) contains a Perl script that strips C-style and C++-style comments from C and C++ code. Note that you should initialize $canNest= 0 as C/C++ don't allow nesting of C-style comments. You might also want to manipulate whitespace so you can ignore difference in whitespace only outside of quoted strings.

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