Re: How to remove comments with grep?

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2003


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').Thanks John. It looks like I need a different solution than webdna ... ;) -- Sincerely, Kenneth GromePS: My email address is kengrome@softhome.net until further notice.------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: How to remove comments with grep? (Kenneth Grome 2003)
  2. Re: How to remove comments with grep? (Kenneth Grome 2003)
  3. Re: How to remove comments with grep? (John Peacock 2003)
  4. How to remove comments with grep? (Kenneth Grome 2003)
>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').Thanks John. It looks like I need a different solution than webdna ... ;) -- Sincerely, Kenneth GromePS: My email address is kengrome@softhome.net until further notice.------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ Kenneth Grome

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