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Regular expression to remove blank lines and single line comments in C/C++ files.
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  • remove blank lines with ^\s*$\n
  • remove single line comments with *//.*$\n
  • remove inline comments with /\*.*\*/
  • replace tabs with \t by a single space
  • replace multiple spaces with + by a single space

all in one:

  • replace all above with (^\s*$\n)|( *//.*$\n)|(/\*.*\*/)|(\t) by spaces
  • reduce all the spaces with + to a single space
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