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DIY: Count a Word in the Comments

Explore how to parse C++ source code to detect comments and accurately count the occurrences of a target word within those comments. This lesson helps you develop skills to analyze code structure and implement a function that isolates comments, preparing you for similar coding interview challenges.

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Problem statement

In this challenge, you are given two arguments: a list of strings containing lines of a C++ source code and a string containing a word. Your task is to identify which parts of the code are comments, and then count all occurrences of the input word present in the comments ...