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mikegreen on 07/05/08


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Match CSS and JS Comments

Published in: Regular Expression 

Matches CSS-style comments spanning one or multiple lines

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  1. # This is how it would look using the Ruby Regexp class
  2.  
  3. # Only match one-line comments
  4. Regexp.new(/\/\*.*?\*\//)
  5.  
  6. # Match single and multi-line comments
  7. Regexp.new(/\/\*.*?\*\//m)

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