Re: How to remove comments with grep?
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It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = Kenneth Grome wrote:> My original webdna template file has a lot of webdna comments in it. I > want to remove all these comments when writing this file to a new file. You cannot, at least not with grep alone. You need an actual parser (finite state machine actually) to correctly handle either WebDNA or HTML comments. Grep is a line oriented operator, instead of a stream oriented operator, (although you can fake out the Perl regex's to treat the entire string as one 'line').John-- John PeacockDirector of Information Research and TechnologyRowman & Littlefield Publishing Group4501 Forbes BoulevardSuite HLanham, MD 20706301-459-3366 x.5010fax 301-429-5748-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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Kenneth Grome wrote:> My original webdna template file has a lot of webdna comments in it. I > want to remove all these comments when writing this file to a new file. You cannot, at least not with grep alone. You need an actual parser (finite state machine actually) to correctly handle either WebDNA or HTML comments. Grep is a line oriented operator, instead of a stream oriented operator, (although you can fake out the Perl regex's to treat the entire string as one 'line').John-- John PeacockDirector of Information Research and TechnologyRowman & Littlefield Publishing Group4501 Forbes BoulevardSuite HLanham, MD 20706301-459-3366 x.5010fax 301-429-5748-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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