title: avoiding comments by c lexical analyzer
body: <blockquote>
    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2130097/problem-getting-c-style-comments-in-flex-lex">problem getting c-style comments in flex/lex</a>  </p>
  </blockquote>
  
  
  
  <p>I am writing a lexical analyzer using flex how can I make it avoid the comments that look
  like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>/* COMMENTS */
  </code></pre>