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 files](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2319019/using-regex-to-remove-comments-from-source-files) – Wajahat Feb 28 '14 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 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. – Ivanka Todorova Aug 18 '16 at 13:52
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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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You don't need to escape the forward slashes, so this would work too: `/\*.+?\*/` – CAustin Feb 28 '14 at 22:19
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6`\/\*[\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 -.- – robro Mar 02 '15 at 11:43
