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Old 07-25-2013
Removing SAS multi line comments in UNIX
i have to remove the commented (/* . . . .*/) part which starts in one line and ends in other.help me with generic code because i have 1000 to 10k lines code which i have to remove.

Code:
data one;
set work.temp;
input name age;
infile filename;
/* dfsdf
dsfs
sdfdf
dsdd
sdfsf
sdfsf
sfs
fsfs
dffsf */
if age > 10 the do;
/* people who have age 
 more than 10
*/ 
run;

I have tried below code:
Code:
sed 's#; */\*[^*]*\*/ *$#;#' filename.txt
egrep -v '/|/d' filename.txt
 sed -v '/\/\*/,/\*\//p' filename.txt

Last edited by saaisiva; 07-25-2013 at 11:58 AM..
# 2  
Old 07-25-2013
using awk:

Code:
nawk '/\/\*/{f=1;next}/\*\//{f=0;next}!f{print}' file

Last edited by Subbeh; 07-25-2013 at 09:21 AM..
# 3  
Old 07-25-2013
Hi Subbeh,

I am Getting error command not found when i run the above command.
# 4  
Old 07-25-2013
my bad, use awkinstead of nawk
# 5  
Old 07-25-2013
Hi Subbeh,

I am not getting the output when i run it in bash. it is blank
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