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From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel source spellchecker
To: ms@citd.de (Matthias Schniedermeyer)
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 09:15:42 +0000 (GMT)
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> > >This versions defaults to only correct words within a comment. ...
> > >// Comments are easy(tm). "Everything after // until line-end".
> > >
> > >and /* ... */ are easy(tm) too because gcc doesn't support to nest them.
> > 
> > I'll be damned.  I'm impressed with how easy that was in perl.
> 
> As long as there is no nesting involved most things a easy/trivial to
> achieve with REs.

Does it cope with:

main ()
{
// /*
printf ("hello world");
// */
}

though?

John.