I am in need of a Sublime Text 2 friendly regex that would allow me to search for all comments within a file.
The comments are all following this basic structure /* <anything> */
Thanks for taking the time to help :)
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possible duplicate of using regex to remove comments from source filesWajahat– Wajahat2014-02-28 21:37:12 +00:00Commented Feb 28, 2014 at 21:37
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Search for:
(?s)/\*.*?\*/
This allows you to match comments that spreads over multiple lines.
The (?s) turns on "single line" mode, which makes . matches any character without exception (by default, . excludes line separators).
This assumes that there is no /* or */ inside a string literal.
Or if you want a bullet-proof solution, you may want to take a look at this question:
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CAustin
For a multiline match, this would be simpler:
/\*[\s\S]+?\*/
Ivanka Todorova
@CAustin Note: If you use
calc() and multiply inside or you're using sass and multiply in it or have comments that include * that solution doesn't work. At least didn't work for me.Something like this should work:
\/\*.+?\*\/
I'm not super-familiar with Sublime Text, but this would work in Notepad++, and I believe the regex implementation is basically the same. If I'm wrong, feel free to let me know.
Edit: Per CAustin's helpful tip, you can also just do this (without the escaping of the forward slashes):
/\*.+?\*/
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CAustin
You don't need to escape the forward slashes, so this would work too:
/\*.+?\*/
elixenide
@CAustin Good to know; I will tweak accordingly.
robro
\/\*[\s\S]+?\*\/ also captures multiline comments. @CAustin mentioned it in the comments of another answer, but I spent some minutes on regexr.com to figure it out because I didn't look further than the accepted answer. To save anyone from the same fate, I thought I'd double post that here -.-I think this code is better:
\/\*[^(?:\*\/)]*\*\/
