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De-Comment Program in C

De-commenting is one of the primary tasks of the C preprocessor. This article demonstrates a simplified C program to remove comments from source-code.

DFA Design

The deterministic finite state automaton (DFA) expresses the required de-commenting logic. The DFA is represented using the traditional "labeled ovals and labeled arrows" notation. Each oval represent a state. Each state is given short name with detailed descriptions of the left. Each arrow represent a transition from one state to another. Each arrow is labeled with the single character that causes the transition to occur.
DFA

Usage

$ ./decomment <file_path>
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  • If the program is run without argument, the code to be decommented will be read from the standard input and displayed[decommented code] on the standard output
  • If argument is given, the code to be decommented will be read form the file and displayed in the standard output.

The full source-code for the project is on GitHub:

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C program to remove comments from source-code

De-Comment Program

C program to remove comments from source-code

DFA Design

The deterministic finite state automaton (DFA) expresses the required de-commenting logic. The DFA is represented using the traditional "labeled ovals and labeled arrows" notation. Each oval represent a state. Each state is given short name with detailed descriptions of the left. Each arrow represent a transition from one state to another. Each arrow is labeled with the single character that causes the transition to occur.

deterministic finite state automaton (DFA)

Build

You can compile the program using gcc.

$ gcc decomment.c -o decomment
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Usage

$ ./decomment <file_path>
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  • If the program is run without <file_path> argument, the code to be decommented will be read from the standard input and displayed[decommented code] on the standard output

  • If <file_path> argument is given, the code to be decommented will be read form the file and displayed in the standard output.

Test

test.py contains a simple…

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