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Regular Expression Details

Title Test Find Remove Java/PHP/C++ style multiline comments
Expression
/\/\*[\d\D]*?\*\//
Description
If you are caching PHP code you may want to remove long comments from the code before caching it. This expression will remove all /* */ style comments.
Matches
/** A comment **/|/* A commment */| /* */
Non-Matches
// A comment|//
Author Rating: Not yet rated. Peter Darling
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