note 78682 rejected from function.preg-replace by james

Note Submitter: giel dot berkers at gmail dot com ---- I am trying to build a function to pack a php script. I am using regular expressions to delete comments and whitespace: <?php // Delete //-comments: $code = preg_replace('/\/\/.*/', '', $code); // Delete /* */-comments: $code = preg_replace('/\/\*.*\*\//m', '', $code); // Delete excess whitespace: $code = preg_replace('/\s\s+/', ' ', $code); ?> I'm having trouble when removing /* */-comments. It doesn't get the multiline mode. So this he will delete: /* comment */ but not this: /* comment */ And when deleting the excess whitespace, also the EOL's get deleted so my code is returned in one big string, and I don't want that: I want to preserve the EOL's. any suggestions what I am doing wrong here?