Thanks Kendall I'll check out those compressors I tried the grep, but it matched the entire contents of the file. There were only 2 lines left after it was done.
I'll try tweaking it a bit more. Ken On Sunday, September 30, 2012 3:15:05 PM UTC-4, Kendall Conrad wrote: > > One indirect solution: > There's tools for compressing JavaScript files (minifiers). These strip > comments and remove all unnecessary white space, which results in much > smaller files. I use YUI Compressor for my JS and CSS files saving to > -min.js file names. This might be the better approach in the long run if > you're after getting smaller files. The comments can help later when > reworking the code so it's good to keep them around for development. > > Examples: > http://jscompress.com/ > http://fmarcia.info/jsmin/test.html > http://www.crockford.com/javascript/jsmin.html > http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/compressor/ > > One direct solution: > Find: (?s)\/\*.*\*\/\r > > The (?s) lets the . match newlines. > > -Kendall > > On Sunday, September 30, 2012 1:55:26 PM UTC-4, kt wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> I've been futzing around with grep for nearly an hour and can't figure >> out how to grep multi-line /* ... */ blocks. I have a large Javascript >> source file with tons of single and multi line comments and I want to strip >> them all out to reduce file size. I got the single line grep working >> (\r//[^\r]+) but I'm stumped on the multi line version. Anyone help me out? >> >> Thanks in advance >> >> Ken >> > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at <http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en> If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit>
