Nawk and Non-Commentary Source Code Listing

[Dave Jones]

>From article <6257 at homxc.ATT.COM>, by bgt at homxc.ATT.COM (B.TONGUE):
> 
> Concerning ncsl, is there a nawk program which would accomplish
> the same thing in a fraction of the time?  Seems that searching
> a line for a pattern ( /*..[..]..*/ ) or ( #..) shouldn't be
> that difficult - what am I overlooking?
> 



String literals, multiple line comments, and (shudder) preprocessor
directives.