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DIY: Count a Word in the Comments

Explore how to detect comments within C++ source code and count occurrences of a target word in those comments. This lesson helps you develop skills useful for compiler feature optimization and coding interview problems involving text parsing in code.

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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 ...