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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: Programming exercise/challenge
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Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

> On 24/01/2021 05:35, Tim Rentsch wrote:
>
>> Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>>
>> (4) In the initial if() test, when c==inquote, the character
>> after the end of the string/character constant is output
>> without checking it.  What should happen on this input
>>
>>      "\\"/*comment*/"\\"
>>
>> and what actually does happen?
>
> I've redone string handling and the current version is below;  it also
> gets rid of some junk that was present before, as well as removing
> extraneous spaces from the output as suggested.  Block comments reduce
> to one space.  [...]

Much better.