The correct regular expression to match a C-style block comment is surprisingly elusive
Not that anybody asked, it's /\*([^*]|\*+[^*/])*\*+/ and those forward slashes are literal, not regex delimiters.
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@qntm Won't /\*.+?\*/ work or is making + nongreedy not standard? -
@camlorn38 I tend to work with strictly regular expressions where non-greedy multipliers don't exist - 1 more reply
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@qntm Ah, no, you'd have to use /\*.*?\*/ /**/ is a valid comment, after all.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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