debian man page for decomment

decomment(1)						      General Commands Manual						      decomment(1)

NAME
       decomment - remove comments from C and C++ files

SYNOPSIS
       decomment [file(s)]

DESCRIPTION
       decomment  processes the named files, or standard input if none are named, copying their contents to standard output with comments removed.
       Line numbers in the input file(s) and out file(s) are unchanged, that is, if main() occurs on line 40 in the input, it will also appear	on
       line 40 in the output despite comment removal.

APPLICATIONS
       decomment may be used to remove comments in order to simply other programs which process source code.

DIAGNOSTICS
       No parsing-related diagnostics.

WARNINGS
AUTHOR
       Paul Bame

SEE ALSO
       pmccabe(1), codechanges(1)

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								     12Feb2003							      decomment(1)