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  3. December 2009

Re: Parsing CL comments

Dennis Lovelady wrote:
I have a utility that I've used for some time that parses CL program sources
for various purposes. Only recently I have run into the following question
'cuz I accidentally happened to write the program to work correctly under
most circumstances. The anomaly is related to comments, and how to
determine, from a dumb text-formatting program's standpoint, where a comment
actually begins.

Hmm. Recursive descent parsing is your friend.

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JHHL

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