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NAME

       decomment - remove comments from C and C++ files

SYNOPSIS

       decomment [file(s)]

DESCRIPTION

       decomment  processes  the  named  files,  or standard input if none are
       named, copying their contents to standard output with comments removed.
       Line  numbers  in the input file(s) and out file(s) are unchanged, that
       is, if main() occurs on line 40 in the input, it will  also  appear  on
       line 40 in the output despite comment removal.

APPLICATIONS

       decomment  may  be  used  to  remove  comments in order to simply other
       programs which process source code.

DIAGNOSTICS

       No parsing-related diagnostics.

WARNINGS

AUTHOR

       Paul Bame

SEE ALSO

       pmccabe(1), codechanges(1)