I need to get the string in between /* */ comment tag. I am trying to parse a file and just get the strings between comment tags within it. I'm new in using regex. So any advise would be greatly appreciated. I already tried some but none are working.
Sample String Would Be. And yes there is a newline after /* and before */
/*
Comment Here
Comment Here
*/
You haven't said what language you are using, but this regex will work for java (which doesn't require escaping of /):
(?s)/\*(.*?)\*/
Group 1 (ie \1) has the content you seek
It's tricky if you use / as the delimiter because then the slashes inside the regular expression will need escaping, so use a different delimiter instead:
"#/\*(.*?)\*/#s"
The s after the last delimiter is the DOTALL modifier.
Not sure what regex flavor you're looking for, but you can find a good discussion of finding comments using regular expressions here. Check it out -- it's not a simple as several of the early answers here suggest.
However, note that the regular expressions at the site matches comments -- you'll need to then apply one of the other answers here to extract the text as needed.
In php, use this
if (preg_match('%/\*(.*?)\*/%s', $subject, $matches)) {
$result = $matches[1];
} else {
$result = "";
}
You could also trim the match too if you wanted
$result = trim($matches[1]);
