Or try
s|/\*.*?\*/||s
The differences from the previous post:
1) Use | instead of / to delimit the expression so you don't have to escape
the /.
2) Use ".*?", which matches the minimum, instead of ".*", which matches the
max.
3) Use the s modifier at the end which allows . to match imbedded newlines.
Then you can read the whole file in as a single line and
remove multiline comments as well.
- Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Rex Cooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 7:07 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: question about jakarta-oro 2.0.3
The perl regular expression you are looking for is
s/\/\*.*\*\///
Remember that * and / are special characters and need to be escaped as \*
and \/
So, the expression above reads
s/ -- start of substitution
\/\* -- match /*
.* -- The means any non newline character (This would include the / that
you had in your second example
\*\/ -- match */
// -- replace the matched expression with nothing (in otherwords, remove
it)
That would work as long as the /* and */ are on the same line
Not sure how to do this with ORO
