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Given a C++ program, remove comments from it. The program source is an array of strings source where source[i] is the ith line of the source code. This represents the result of splitting the original source code string by the newline character '\\n'.

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In C++, there are two types of comments, line comments, and block comments.

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The first effective comment takes precedence over others.

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If a certain line of code is empty after removing comments, you must not output that line: each string in the answer list will be non-empty.

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There will be no control characters, single quote, or double quote characters.

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Also, nothing else such as defines or macros will interfere with the comments.

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It is guaranteed that every open block comment will eventually be closed, so "/*" outside of a line or block comment always starts a new comment.

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Finally, implicit newline characters can be deleted by block comments. Please see the examples below for details.

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After removing the comments from the source code, return the source code in the same format.

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Example 1:

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\nInput: source = ["/*Test program */", "int main()", "{ ", "  // variable declaration ", "int a, b, c;", "/* This is a test", "   multiline  ", "   comment for ", "   testing */", "a = b + c;", "}"]\nOutput: ["int main()","{ ","  ","int a, b, c;","a = b + c;","}"]\nExplanation: The line by line code is visualized as below:\n/*Test program */\nint main()\n{ \n  // variable declaration \nint a, b, c;\n/* This is a test\n   multiline  \n   comment for \n   testing */\na = b + c;\n}\nThe string /* denotes a block comment, including line 1 and lines 6-9. The string // denotes line 4 as comments.\nThe line by line output code is visualized as below:\nint main()\n{ \n  \nint a, b, c;\na = b + c;\n}\n
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Example 2:

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\nInput: source = ["a/*comment", "line", "more_comment*/b"]\nOutput: ["ab"]\nExplanation: The original source string is "a/*comment\\nline\\nmore_comment*/b", where we have bolded the newline characters.  After deletion, the implicit newline characters are deleted, leaving the string "ab", which when delimited by newline characters becomes ["ab"].\n
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Compiled with clang 11 using the latest C++ 17 standard.

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Your code is compiled with level two optimization (-O2). AddressSanitizer is also enabled to help detect out-of-bounds and use-after-free bugs.

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Most standard library headers are already included automatically for your convenience.

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OpenJDK 17 . Java 8 features such as lambda expressions and stream API can be used.

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Most standard library headers are already included automatically for your convenience.

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Includes Pair class from https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/javafx/api/javafx/util/Pair.html.

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Python 2.7.12.

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Most libraries are already imported automatically for your convenience, such as array, bisect, collections. If you need more libraries, you can import it yourself.

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For Map/TreeMap data structure, you may use sortedcontainers library.

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Note that Python 2.7 will not be maintained past 2020. For the latest Python, please choose Python3 instead.

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Compiled with gcc 8.2 using the gnu99 standard.

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Your code is compiled with level one optimization (-O1). AddressSanitizer is also enabled to help detect out-of-bounds and use-after-free bugs.

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Most standard library headers are already included automatically for your convenience.

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For hash table operations, you may use uthash. \\\"uthash.h\\\" is included by default. Below are some examples:

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1. Adding an item to a hash.\\r\\n

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3. Deleting an item in a hash:\\r\\n

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C# 10 with .NET 6 runtime

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Your code is compiled with debug flag enabled (/debug).

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lodash.js library is included by default.

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For Priority Queue / Queue data structures, you may use datastructures-js/priority-queue and datastructures-js/queue.

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Ruby 3.1

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Some common data structure implementations are provided in the Algorithms module: https://www.rubydoc.info/github/kanwei/algorithms/Algorithms

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Swift 5.5.2.

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Go 1.17.6.

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Python 3.10.

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