Shell Programming and Scripting

/* This is the outer comment 
    /* And the inner comment */  
  Some more of the outer */Done!

awk 'function p(c,n) {
  if(j) return j=0;
  if(c=="/" && n=="*") {m++; return j=1}
  if(m && c=="*" && n=="/") {m--; return j=1}
  if(!m) printf c; }
{ for(i=1;i<=length($0);i++) p(substr($0,i,1), substr($0,i+1,1)); if(!m) printf "\n"}' infile

local $/;
my $str = <DATA>;
$str=~s/\/\*[^\*]*\*\//\n/smg;
$str=~s/\n\n/\n/;
open OFH,'| sed -e "s/^  *//" -e "s/  +$//" -e "/^$/d"';
select OFH;
print $str;
close OFH;
__DATA__
/*....
This multi line comment might stretch even the entire file..!
......*/
Some text
Text1 /* Comment here */
/*...Comment...*/ Text2
Some text
Note this text /*.....
....
......*/ Note here again