I'm parsing some mans with a python script and I'm trying to exclude all the text that's commented. So I thought about regex and made the following bit of code :
text = re.sub(r' (?s)/\*(.*)\*/', "", text)
At first everything seemed to work fine unfortunately what it does isn't exactly what I thought it would do :
Initial text :
some text 1
/* a comment */
some text 2
/* a comment */
some text 3
My expected result was :
some text 1
some text 2
some text 3
But it actually is :
some text 1
some text 3
Instead of removing the to occurrences of
/* comment */
it removed from the first /* to the last */ so :
/* comment */
some text 2
/* comment */
How can I fix it so it removes each occurrences instead of a big chunk of interesting text?
