UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

It is quite simple: you need a (recursive) parser for this, the same way the language is interpreted (i suppose?) by one. I suggest to retrieve your yacc utility and start writing...


If you are looking for a regex-solution (grep, sed, awk, ...): none of these will work correctly, because languages are context-sensitive. Consider i.e. :

Code:

program_text /* this is a comment */ more program_text

and:

Code:

program_text "/* this is not a comment any more */" more program_text

and that is just one of the myriads of possibilities to lead a regexp astray.