Is there a regex for comments that look like this:
/**
* -string- (possible line)
-possibly more lines like the above one-
*/
For example:
/**
* The Boring class implements this and that
* and also...
* does this and that
*/
-
Which language are you using? Regex is not the same in every langauge.Mark Byers– Mark Byers2012-06-06 21:19:24 +00:00Commented Jun 6, 2012 at 21:19
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A simple /\*\*.*?\*/ with a dotall (dot matches all) flag should do the trick. Although it may require different escaping or possible delimiters depending on which flavour of regex engine you're using.
If you don't have dotall in your engine try something like:
/\*\*[\s\S]*?\*/
6 Comments
Tremmors
May also need to be explictly set as "multiline" if the language supports it
Hans Z
Might need to explicitly exclude the trailing */ with
\/\*\*^(\*\/)*?\*\/, also you're missing an escape before the last slash.
cookya
The first one doesn't work (with multiline), the second one works
Paul
@Hans I don't mean to escape any
/. That's only necessary if / is picked as a delimiter and the engine requires delimiters, otherwise / has no special meaning. Since the question didn't specify I had to make some assumptions in my answer :)Paul
@cookya Glad you got one to work :)
[\s\S] means any character that is either whitespace or not whitespace (which is a long-winded way of saying any character). |
