Strip C-like Comments

A C program to strip comments from a c file and output the result to a new file.

Features

• Fast and Without any third-party library
• Without using Regex
• Remove inline C-style comments
• Remove multiline C-style comments
• Trim whitespaces
• Remove two or more empty lines

Build

gcc StripComments.c -o strip_comments

Using

If you are going to strip comments and get the results in stdout:

./strip_comments StripComments.c

And maybe sometime you need to write the result in another or same file:

./strip_comments StripComments.c StripComments.nocomments.c

TODO

• Add Makefile or CMake (to set strip_comments in /user/bin/)

Anyone welcome to do contribute or extend the program to support Python comments too. (With a flag)

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