Re: Extracting comments from C code

Article View: comp.text.sgml

Article #635

#635

From: Christophe Blaess
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 00:53

13 lines
1173 bytes

In article <4kg84v$if9@solutions.solon.com>, saroff@pobox.com says...
>
>I am looking for some documentation tool for extracting comments from C 
>code to be included into documentation.
>
 You can easily do a little program for Lex wich can extract the comments
and put them in an other text file. There are some classical examples for
discarding comments - even nested - with Lex.(see 'Lex and Yacc' - O'Reilly) 
Then you just have to reverse the process.

[Of course, C has no nested comments, and I believe I once saw a proof
 that lex and yacc can't generically handle the language of nested
 comments, but that hardly matters. -mod]

Technical Details

Message-ID: <4khl76$svr@solutions.solon.com>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!solon.com!not-for-mail

References: <4kg84v$if9@solutions.solon.com>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!solon.com!not-for-mail
From: ccb@club-internet.fr (Christophe Blaess)
Newsgroups: comp.text.sgml,comp.lang.c.moderated,comp.text,,comp.doc,comp.doc.techreports
Subject: Re: Extracting comments from C code
Date: 10 Apr 1996 19:53:58 -0500
Organization: Grolier Interactive Europe
Sender: clc@solutions.solon.com
Approved: clc@solutions.solon.com
Message-ID: <4khl76$svr@solutions.solon.com>
References: <4kg84v$if9@solutions.solon.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: solutions.solon.com
X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.7

Reply to Parent Message