Den 2011-02-28 21:36 skrev Ralf Wildenhues:
> Hello,
>
> * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 01:54:20PM CET:
>> On Monday 28 February 2011, Peter Rosin wrote:
>>> How about this?
>>>
>>> Should the sed command to strip comments be "s/ *#.*//",
>>>
>> IMHO yes, but I have no strong feelings here -- I'm ok also with the
>> "weaker" 's/ #.*//'.
>
> It would be nice your sed script would allow sed scripts like
> s/#//
> s/ #//
>
> to continue to work. But if they don't, for now, that's not a big
> problem either: failures will be noisy.
Implementing something that covers every corner case requires a
complete sed parser. That's not viable of course, so that's
obviously not what you mean. How about:
sed -e 's/ *# .*//'
Cheers,
Peter
