How can I strip multiline C comments from a file using Perl?

Question

Can anyone get me with the regular expression to strip multiline comments and single line comments in a file?

eg:

                  \" WHOLE         


        

Answer 1

This is a FAQ:

perldoc -q comment

Found in perlfaq6:

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