On Fri, 07 Dec 2001 20:34:32 +0100, allan wrote: >does anyone have a code snip lying around to remove c/c++ >and possibly html comments as used in jsp?
>it should be bullet proof enough to take care of the example below. This question only makes me frown. According to the C standard, C style comments CANNOT be nested, . Yet it looks to me as if that is what you're asking for. The only excuse you could have, is that there's a <% ... %> style tag "inside" the comments, which might have to be treated specially. Nested things cannot be treated with a regex alone. You need a (simple) parser, one that balances out the delimiters. And since for comments the delimiters needn't be balanced, e.g. this looks OK to me: /* <% */ %> then, what you're asking for is not really possible. Or, you should specify the rules better. -- Bart.