Remove extra junk from C proprocessor?

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Published on 2010-06-01T01:58:23Z Indexed on 2010/06/01 2:03 UTC
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I'm trying to use the C proprocessor on non-C code, and it works fine except for creating lines like this at the top:

# 1 "test.java"
# 1 "<built-in>"
# 1 "<command-line>"
# 1 "test.java"

The problem is that these lines aren't valid in Java. Is there any way to get the preprocessor to not write this stuff? I'd prefer not to have to run this through something else to just remove the first 4 lines every time.

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