Want a way to strip comments from a C file

[Tom Stockfisch]

In article <891 at m10ux.UUCP> mnc at m10ux.UUCP (Michael Condict) writes:
#----------- Lex script to delete comments from C source code ----------------
#%%
#\"([^\\"]*\\(.|\n))*[^\\"]*\"	ECHO;
#"/*"([^*]*"*"[^/])*[^*]*"*/"	;
#.				ECHO;
#Can anyone find anything wrong with this one (he asks stupidly)?

Fails on
	/***/
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