Strip Line Comments

Task

Implement strip_line_comments

• Remove everything from // to the end of the line.
• If there’s no //, return the string unchanged

Function Signature

// Removes everything from "//" to the end of the string (in-place).
// If no "//" is found, the string is unchanged.
void strip_line_comments(char str[]);

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Test

$ gcc strip_line_comments.c -o strip_line_comments
$ ./strip_line_comments 
int x = 5; // this is a comment
int x = 5; 
// full line comment
 
int y = 10;
int y = 10;
x = 5; // comment // more
x = 5; 
$ ./strip_line_comments < small_input.txt
int x = 5; 
 
int y = 10;
x = 5; 
code 
test

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Code

void strip_line_comments(char str[]) {
    int i = 0;
    while(str[i] != 0){
        if (str[i] == '/' && str[i + 1] == '/'){
            str[i] = 0;
        }
        i++;
    }
}