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722\. Remove Comments

Medium

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'`.

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

*   The string `"//"` denotes a line comment, which represents that it and the rest of the characters to the right of it in the same line should be ignored.
*   The string `"/*"` denotes a block comment, which represents that all characters until the next (non-overlapping) occurrence of `"*/"` should be ignored. (Here, occurrences happen in reading order: line by line from left to right.) To be clear, the string `"/*/"` does not yet end the block comment, as the ending would be overlapping the beginning.

The first effective comment takes precedence over others.

*   For example, if the string `"//"` occurs in a block comment, it is ignored.
*   Similarly, if the string `"/*"` occurs in a line or block comment, it is also ignored.

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.

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

*   For example, `source = "string s = "/* Not a comment. */";"` will not be a test case.

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

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.

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

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

**Example 1:**

**Input:** source = ["/*Test program */", "int main()", "{ ", " // variable declaration ", "int a, b, c;", "/* This is a test", " multiline ", " comment for ", " testing */", "a = b + c;", "}"]

**Output:** ["int main()","{ "," ","int a, b, c;","a = b + c;","}"]

**Explanation:** The line by line code is visualized as below: 

    /*Test program */ 
    int main() { 
    // variable declaration 
    int a, b, c; 
    /* This is a test 
    multiline comment 
    for testing */ 
    a = b + c; 
    } 
    The string /* denotes a block comment, including line 1 and lines 6-9. The string // denotes line 4 as comments. 
    The line by line output code is visualized as below: 
    int main() { 
    int a, b, c; 
    a = b + c; 
    }

**Example 2:**

**Input:** source = ["a/*comment", "line", "more_comment*/b"]

**Output:** ["ab"]

**Explanation:** 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"].

**Constraints:**

*   `1 <= source.length <= 100`
*   `0 <= source[i].length <= 80`
*   `source[i]` consists of printable **ASCII** characters.
*   Every open block comment is eventually closed.
*   There are no single-quote or double-quote in the input.