RE: Nested comments

[john43]

>Read Jeff Friedl's book, especially chapter 6, and then 
ask again if you
>still need help

I doubt that will be of much help. This user obviously 
understands regexps and PDAs enough to have already 
optimized the obvious (and most maintainable) solution:

<COMMENT>{
"[*"   ++level;
"*]"   if (!--level) BEGIN(0);
.|\n   ;
}