block comment stripping?

I'm using SciTE-ez and the VC++ preprocessor (stripped it out so I get just what I want at under 6meg as opposed to 500meg) which is awesom.

But, I noticed that cl.exe doesn't discriminate between inline (//blah comment blah) and block (/*blah comment blah*/) style comments.

Since LSL doesn't recognize block style comments I'd really like to strip them in my precompile. But I want to leave inline comments.

Does anybody have a simple, small comment stripper that can be executed with command line arguments and will strip block style comments but leave inline comments?

I don't know about VC++, but the GNU C preprocessor (cpp) has a traditional mode, in which it only recognizes /* */ comments and removes them entirely. On the other hand, it might get confused if you use quotes inside a line comment.

I did find a really nifty comment stripper, unfortunately it's a GUI only and doesn't seem to support command line driven usage.

It is open source, but sadly I'm not nearly confident enough in C++ to try to modify it.

I have found mention of other strippers, but very little in the way of executable binaries. I'd have thought this an easy thing to find but am learning differently. heh