Re: stripping comments

On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 04:46:16AM -0400, zzz wrote: : : I'm trying to strip comments out of my code. I can get it to strip one : section of comments but the problem comes in when I have more then one : comment section to strip. : : I am using this: $code = preg_replace('/\/*(.*?)*\//is', '$1', $code) and : need help fixing my regex. : : example: : ======== : code 1 : /* comment 1 */ : code 2 : /* comment 2 */ : code 3 : : result (bad): : ============= : code 1 : code 3 : : result (good): : ============== : code 1 : code 2 : code 3 How about this: $code = preg_replace('|/\*.*\*/|msU', '', $code);